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Baptist

The churches that baptize only professing believers, by immersion, holding the local congregation autonomous under Christ and the Bible as their only creed in the strictest forms.

The Baptist family began in Amsterdam and London in the early seventeenth century. Believer's baptism, congregational autonomy, and religious liberty are its marks, and its bodies range from the Southern Baptist Convention to the historic Black Baptist conventions.

Denomination / School

Denomination / School American Baptist Churches USA It is the mainline Baptist body in the United States that combines congregational autonomy with a national general board structure rooted in the… Denomination / School Baptist World Alliance It is a global fellowship of Baptist unions and conventions rather than a denomination, so it holds no authority over its member bodies or their… Denomination / School Cooperative Baptist Fellowship It formed in 1991 as a moderate Baptist fellowship for congregations and individuals who chose not to remain aligned with the direction of the… Denomination / School General Association of Regular Baptist Churches It is a fundamentalist Baptist association formed in 1932 by churches that withdrew from the Northern Baptist Convention over theological modernism. Denomination / School National Baptist Convention of America It is a historically Black Baptist convention that emerged from the 1915 division of the National Baptist Convention, USA over control of the… Denomination / School National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. It is the largest historically Black Baptist denomination in the United States, organized in 1895 from three Black Baptist conventions. Denomination / School Southern Baptist Convention It is the largest Baptist body in the United States and the largest Protestant denomination in the country, organized in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia.

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Sources

Primary

  • John Smyth, The Character of the Beast (1609).

Secondary

  • Bill J. Leonard, Baptist Ways: A History (2003).