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Baptist beliefs are seen as belonging to three parties: General Baptists who uphold Arminian soteriology, Particular Baptists who uphold Calvinist soteriology, [2] and Independent Baptists, who might embrace a strict version of either Arminianism or Calvinism, but are most notable for their fundamentalist positions on Biblical hermeneutics ...
Most of the well-known denominations of the U.S. existing today originated as sects breaking away from denominations (or Churches, in the case of Lutheranism and Anglicanism), including Methodists, Baptists, and Seventh-day Adventists. Mennonites are an example of an institutionalized sect that did not become a denomination.
Southern Baptist traditionalism, also called Traditional Southern Baptist soteriology [1] [2] [3], Traditionalism [4] [5] [6] or Provisionism [5] [7] [8] [9] are terms used to refer to the view of salvation commonly held within the Southern Baptist Convention.
Belief in a second work of grace, i.e. entire sanctification (held by General Baptists in the Holiness tradition) Speaking-in-tongues and the operation of other charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit in the charismatic churches [ 81 ]
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. Landmarkists hold a firm belief ...
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.
Baptist successionism (or Baptist perpetuity) is one of several theories on the origin and continuation of Baptist churches. The theory postulates an unbroken lineage of churches (since the days of John the Baptist or the Book of Acts ) which have held beliefs similar to those of current Baptists .
At least 14 Baptist bodies, including the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Baptist General Convention of Texas, the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., and American Baptist Churches USA financially and ideologically support the mission of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. This organization tries to uphold the traditional ...