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==Name== Because the Restoration Movement lacks any centralized structure, having originated in a variety of places with different leaders, there is no consistent nomenclature for the movement as a whole.<ref name = "Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Names of the Movement">{{Harvnb | Foster | Dunnavant | Blowers | Williams | 2004 | p = 551 | ps =, 'Names of the Movement'}}.</ref> The term "Restoration Movement" became popular during the 19th century;{{Sfn | Foster | Dunnavant | Blowers | Williams | 2004 | p = 551 | ps =, 'Names of the Movement'}} this appears to be the influence of Alexander Campbell's essays on "A Restoration of the Ancient Order of Things" in the ''[[Christian Baptist]].''{{Sfn | Foster | Dunnavant | Blowers | Williams | 2004 | p = 551 | ps =, 'Names of the Movement'}} The term "Stone-Campbell Movement" emerged towards the end of the 19th century as a way to avoid the difficulties associated with some of the other names that have been used and to maintain a sense of the collective history of the movement.{{Sfn | Foster | Dunnavant | Blowers | Williams | 2004 | p = 551 | ps =, 'Names of the Movement'}}
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