| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Prophet, Pastor, and Patriarch: The Rhetorical Leadership of Alexander Campbell. By Peter A. Verkruyse. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xx, 225 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8173-1477-6.)

Alexander Campbell (1788–1866), founder of the Disciples of Christ Restorationist movement, has received much scholarly attention, but this study by Peter A. Verkruyse is the first to analyze his writings using the categories of rhetoric. Prophet, Pastor, and Patriarch retains a bit of a dissertation's tone, but its tidy treatment of the three phases of Campbell's career is a solid contribution to the history of American ideas and religion. Verkruyse did not engage two recent authoritative works that bear upon his subject, E. Brooks Holifield's Theology in America (2003) and Mark A. Noll's America's God (2002), although they appeared at the time he was preparing the manuscript for publication. Both works discuss Campbell's employment, especially in public debates, of the Baconian evidentiary argumentation that typified nineteenth-century American Protestantism. The monograph's neglect of the Holifield and Noll books is unfortunate because it fits closely with those broader interpretive works.

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