Legacy
Fanning's major legacy within the Restoration Movement lay with his advocacy of education. He was an important mentor to David Lipscomb and thought by many to be the source of many his protégé's more pacifist views. Lipscomb University has a dormitory named in honor of him.
Following the American Civil War, Fanning was instrumental in resisting the growth of missionary societies and the use of instrumental music. Lipscomb's championing of Fanning's theology would lead to the 1906 schism in which the Church of Christ was first recognized as a separate body from the more liberal Disciples of Christ.
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