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Primitive Baptists – also known as Regular Baptists, Old School Baptists, Foot Washing Baptists, or, derisively, Hard Shell Baptists [2] – are conservative Baptists adhering to a degree of Calvinist beliefs who coalesced out of the controversy among Baptists in the early 19th century over the appropriateness of mission boards, tract societies, and temperance societies.
"Restorationism" in the sense of "Christian primitivism" refers to the attempt to correct perceived shortcomings of the current church by using the primitive church as a model to reconstruct early Christianity, [1]: 635 and has also been described as "practicing church the way it is perceived to have been done in the New Testament". [2]: 217
The majority Hebrew makeup of the primitive Church has been seen as support of Aramaic primacy. [31] Besides the traditional material (see above), other support for an Aramaic Matthew advanced in recent years includes the theory that the Medieval Hebrew gospel of Matthew in Even Bohan could be a corrupted version of the original.
The Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement. It began in England in the early 19th century, with the influence of American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834). In the United States, the Primitive Methodist Church had eighty-three parishes and 8,487 members in 1996. [2]
Thus the Edessan church traced its origin to the Apostolic Age (which may account for its rapid growth), and Christianity even became the state religion for a time. The Church of the East had its inception at a very early date in the buffer zone between the Parthian and Roman Empires in Upper Mesopotamia, known as the Assyrian Church of the ...
Primitive Christianity, Primitive Christian, or Primitive Church may refer to: Early Christianity, up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD
Primitive Church of Jesus Christ may refer to: Primitive Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite) , a schismatic sect that separated from the Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite) in 1914 The body of followers of Jesus in early Christianity ; many Christians maintain that Jesus established a "church", and this church is often referred to as the ...
The Primitive Advent Christian Church is a small group which separated from the Advent Christian Church. It differs from the parent body mainly on two points. Its members observe foot washing as a rite of the church, and they teach that reclaimed backsliders should be baptized (even though they had formerly been baptized).