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  2. Reformed Baptists - Wikipedia

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    While the Reformed Baptist confessions affirm views of the nature of baptism similar to those of the classical Reformed, they reject infants as the proper subjects of baptism. [3] The first Calvinistic Baptist church was formed in the 1630s. [1] The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith is a significant summary of the beliefs of Reformed Baptists. [1]

  3. Five Points of Calvinism - Wikipedia

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    English Reformed Baptist theologian John Gill (1697-1771) staunchly defended the five points in his work The Cause of God and Truth. [48] The work was a lengthy counter to contemporary Anglican Arminian priest Daniel Whitby, who had been attacking Calvinist doctrine.

  4. Reformed Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Statues of William Farel, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox, influential theologians in developing the Reformed faith, at the Reformation Wall in Geneva. Reformed Christianity, [1] also called Calvinism, [a] is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation.

  5. Reformed baptismal theology - Wikipedia

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    With some notable exceptions such as Reformed Baptists, Reformed Christians baptize infants who are born to believing parents. [54] Reformed Christians do so on the basis of the continuity from the old covenant between God and Israel and the new covenant with the church, since infants were circumcised under the old covenant. [ 55 ]

  6. List of Reformed denominations - Wikipedia

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    The Evangelical Reformed Baptist Churches in Italy; It is a Reformed Baptist denomination in Italy. As a member of the World Reformed Fellowship, this network of churches recover the Calvinist tradition of Pietro Martire Vermigli and Girolamo Zanchi. The Presbyterian Church in Italy

  7. History of the Calvinist–Arminian debate - Wikipedia

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    Early Stuart society was religious, and religion at that time was political. King James I managed religious conflicts for most of the 1610s, but most Protestants maintained a fear of Catholicism. Though Arminians were Protestant, they were perceived as being less antagonistic to Catholicism than the Calvinists were.

  8. John Calvin - Wikipedia

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    Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational, Reformed and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world. Calvin was a tireless polemicist and apologetic writer who generated much controversy.

  9. Regulative principle of worship - Wikipedia

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    The regulative principle of worship is a Christian doctrine, held by some Calvinists and Anabaptists, that God commands churches to conduct public services of worship using certain distinct elements affirmatively found in scripture, and conversely, that God prohibits any and all other practices in public worship.