Editing Restoration Movement (section)

==Principles==
The Restoration Movement has been characterized by several key principles:
* [[Christianity]] should not be divided; [[Jesus]] intended the creation of {{em|one}} church.<ref name="Redigging the Wells" />{{rp |38}}<ref name="Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Unity">{{Harvnb | Foster | Dunnavant | Blowers | Williams | 2004 | p = 755 | ps =, 'Unity, Christian'}}.</ref>
* [[Creed]]s divide, but Christians should be able to find agreement by standing on the [[Bible]] (from which they believe all creeds are but human expansions or constrictions)<ref name="Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Creeds">{{Harvnb | Foster | Dunnavant | Blowers | Williams | 2004 | pp = 252–54 | ps =, 'Creeds and Confessions'}}.</ref>
* Ecclesiastical traditions divide, but Christians should be able to find common ground by following the practice (as best as it can be determined) of the early church.<ref name= "Allen & Hughes 1988" />{{rp |104–6}}
* Names of human origin divide, but Christians should be able to find common ground by using biblical names for the church (i.e., "Christian Church", "Church of God", or "Church of Christ" as opposed to "Methodist" or "Lutheran", etc.).<ref name = "McAlister & Tucker, 1975" />{{rp |27}}
Thus, the church "should stress only what all Christians hold in common and should suppress all divisive doctrines and practices".<ref>The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, '[http://www.lcms.org/Document.fdoc?src=lcm&id=391 Restoration Movement: History, Beliefs, and Practices]', p. 2</ref>

Several slogans have been used in the Restoration Movement to express some of the distinctive themes of the movement:<ref name="Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Slogans">{{Harvnb | Foster | Dunnavant | Blowers | Williams | 2004 | p = 688 | ps =, 'Slogans'}}.</ref>
* "Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent."{{Sfn | Foster | Dunnavant | Blowers | Williams | 2004 | p = 688 | ps =, 'Slogans'}}
* "The church of Jesus Christ on earth is essentially, intentionally, and constitutionally one."{{Sfn | Foster | Dunnavant | Blowers | Williams | 2004 | p = 688 | ps =, 'Slogans'}}
* "We are Christians only, but not the only Christians."{{Sfn | Foster | Dunnavant | Blowers | Williams | 2004 | p = 688 | ps =, 'Slogans'}}
* "In essentials, unity; in opinions, liberty; in all things love."<ref name="Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Slogans" />{{rp |688}}
* "No creed but [[Christ (title)|Christ]], no book but the Bible, no law but love, no name but the divine."<ref name="Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Slogans" />{{rp |688}}
* "Do Bible things in Bible ways."<ref name="Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Slogans" />{{rp |688}}
* "Call Bible things by Bible names."<ref name="Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement: Slogans" />{{rp |688}}