ABSTRACT
The sense of new beginnings encouraged by America’s revolutionary separation from England and the opening of the trans-Appalachian West to white settlement found religious expression in groups seeking to liberate the original Christianity of New Testament times from subsequent institutional accretions and denominational divisions and restore its “primitive” purity. Presbyterian minister Barton Stone. He organized the Cane Ridge revival and led the restorationist “Christian” movement in the trans-Appalachian West. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315022703/d8062edf-62f8-4e77-ad3e-fdf43d7f25ef/content/ufig54_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
