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Douglas A. Foster wrote a critical biography of Alexander Campbell titled A Life Of Alexander Campbell.  A review of this book is posted on this blog under the page Book Reviews.  The review is fourteen and one-half pages which is longer than normal, but it gives a thorough review of the book.  Foster attempts to give the good and bad aspects of Campbell’s character and life.   The book shows the complexities of Campbell’s life, his indefatigable efforts in advancing his ideas and biblical principles, his weaknesses as a man, his multitudinous controversies, and his intellectual strengths.  Foster points out that Campbell is the almost forgotten man in respect to the development of religious life in America.  Forgotten even among the heirs of his own efforts at the restoration of New Testament Christianity.  Campbell does leave a legacy that needs to be explored in respect to the principles that are Scriptural and applicable to our own day.  Hopefully, you will read the review and then, begin a more zealous pursuit of the principles that guided Alexander Campbell to carefully study God’s Word and follow it wherever it led him.  His efforts led to the most significant indigenous religious movement in American history.  That effort is worthy of serious study and reflection.