Baptist

History

- Nonconformist religion formed in Britain during the 17th century - Referenced in the Bible because of John The Baptist spreading the beliefs

- Evolved out of Anabaptist movement

- Anabaptists believed in needing to preform a second baptism to be "born again"

- Also strongly believed in separation between church and the state

- Early English Baptists include John Smyth and Thomas Helwys

- Helwys founded the first Baptist church in England in 1612 - Less than 40 years, over 40 Baptist churches in England - Spread quickly - Ideas eventually spread to America via Europeans travel to the Americas

- Big belief on helping people - Missionaries doing community service work - Helping Asia in the 1800's by giving money and hope to others (first ever mission movement) - Schools and Churches built in poor areas around the country

- Baptist ministers played a large part in the Civil Rights Movement - Martin Luther King Jr. notable Baptist priest - Activists not known as well for their work in the Baptist church Current Population  - Larger population of Baptist is the southern states - As of 2001, 16.3% of Christians were Baptists in the United States - Not a high % because it originated outside of the states <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Theology <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">- Baptists supported Luther's idea of reading the holy word on your own <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">- Faith was based on ideas supported by the Reformation <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">- In 1919, the World's Christian Fundamentals Organization... <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">- Reject infant baptism <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">- Claim personal faith in Jesus  <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">- Believed that only believers should be baptized  <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">- Unlike baptists, Roman Catholics supported infant baptism  <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">- Opposed to Baptists, Roman Catholics believed that good deeds were the way into Heaven  <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">- Anabaptists were called "re-baptizers" <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Extra Visuals <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Baptist World Allience. "Messege from the Centenary Congress ." Baptist World <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Allience. http://www.bwanet.org/bwa.php?site=About Us&id=24 (accessed <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">October 7, 2010).

<span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Doyle, Helen. "Baptist Church ." Oxford Refernce Online. http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ ENTRY.html?entry=t127.e129&srn=2&ssid=392868154#FIRSTHIT (accessed October 7, 2010).

Fundamentalist Baptist Church. "Baptist Vs. Roman Catholic Beliefs." Fundamentalist Baptist Church. http://www.baptistcatholic.com (accessed October 13, 2010). <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">MacCulloch, Diarmaid. "Europe Re-enchanted or Disenchanted?" In //Christianity:The First Three Thousand Years//, 863. New York: Penguin Books, 2010.

Palmowski, Jan. "Baptist Church." Oxford Reference Online. http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ ENTRY.html?entry=t46.e194&srn=1&ssid=392868154#FIRSTHIT (accessed October 7, 2010).