Restorationism
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Restorationism, also known as Christian primitivism, is a religious perspective holding that the early beliefs and practices of the followers of Jesus were either lost or adulterated after the deaths
Huldrych Zwingli as depicted by Hans Asper in an oil portrait from 1531, Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
James Robinson Graves
A 1839 Methodist camp meeting, watercolor from the Second Great Awakening. Methodist preachers taught the doctrines of the New Birth and entire sanctification to the masses.
Alexander Campbell
Great Apostasy
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In Christianity, the Great Apostasy is the notion that mainstream Christian Churches have fallen away from the faith founded by Jesus and promulgated through his Twelve Apostles.
Restorationism
…Catholicism, Protestantism, and Restorationism. These Restorationist groups share a belief that historic Christianity lost the true faith during the Great Apostasy and that the Church needed to be restored. The terms restorationism, restorationist and restoration are used in several senses within Christianity…
Antichristus, a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder: the pope depicted as the Antichrist, using his temporal power to grant authority to a generously contributing ruler.
Pythagoreans celebrate sunrise
LDS Church members believe that Joseph Smith was called by God to restore the true teachings of Jesus Christ