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A movement to restore primitive Christianity sprung up in America in the early 1800s out of the Presbyterian church. Tired of the endless theological disputes, rigid predestination, clerical tyranny, and the frequent schisms he saw among the Presbyterians, Barton W. Stone, a Presbyterian minister, began a movement in Kentucky to restore apostolic Christianity. Barton Stone’s chief objective was to restore the holy living and separation from the world that had marked early Christianity.