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The Trail of Blood. The Trail of Blood is a 1931 book by American Southern Baptist minister James Milton Carroll, comprising a collection of five lectures he gave on the history of Baptist churches, which he presented as a succession from the first Christians. The work has been criticized for linking together numerous unrelated sects and ...
Diagram representing The Trail of Blood as presented by James Milton Carroll. The theory proposes that Baptists have an unbroken lineage from the early church, while claiming that over time bishops or pastors started to assume more authority which led to the Catholic church being born and which led to errors.
Landmarkism, sometimes called Baptist bride theology, [1][2] is a Baptist ecclesiology that emerged in the mid-19th century in the American South. It upholds the perpetuity theory of Baptist origins, which asserts an unbroken continuity and exclusive legitimacy of the Baptist movement since the apostolic period.
The Trail of Blood promoted the Landmarkist view of Baptist origins, a movement that developed in the mid-nineteenth century among Tennessee and western congregations, and had lasting influences. [4] Carroll’s other publications include Texas Baptist Statistics (1895) and A History of Texas Baptists (1923).
Jesse Bushyhead. Coordinates: 36°2′8″N 94°34′58″W. Jesse Bushyhead (Cherokee á¤ážáá, romanized Unaduti; 1804–1844) was a Cherokee religious and political leader, and a Baptist minister. [1] He was born near the present-day town of Cleveland, Tennessee. [2] As a young man, he was ordained a Baptist minister.
Isaac McCoy (June 13, 1784 – June 21, 1846) was an American pioneer and Baptist missionary among the Native Americans in what became the states of Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and Kansas. He was an advocate of saving the dwindling tribes from decades of ongoing American abuse, by leading their charitable removal from the eastern United States ...
Obadiah Holmes. Obadiah Holmes (1610 – 15 October 1682) was an early Rhode Island settler, and a Baptist minister who was whipped in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs and activism. He became the pastor of the Baptist Church in Newport, Rhode Island, a position he held for 30 years. Born in 1610 near Manchester, England ...
Timeline from 'The Trail of Blood' Baptist successionism postulates an unbroken lineage of churches which have held beliefs similar to those of current Baptists. Groups often included in this lineage include the Montanists , Novationists , Donatists , Paulicians , Albigenses , Waldenses , Petrobrusians , Arnoldists , Henricians , Hussites ...