Robert Richardson (religion)

Dr. Robert Richardson (1806 – 1876) was an American medical doctor who spent much of his life teaching and working as an administrator at Bethany College.

He served as family physician for Alexander Campbell, noted Restoration Movement pioneer, for well over 30 years.

In the early 1840s Richardson spoke out against what he felt to be the Restoration Movement's mistaken focus on doctrines and theories.

Locke taught that true knowledge was gained through the five senses and that human reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

^1 Distant Voices: Discovering a Forgotten Past for a Changing Church by C. Leonard Allen: ACU Press; 1993