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| In the 95 Theses this man emphasized the "priesthood of believers", called for Christians to be able to read the Bible in their own languages |
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| this group of radical reformers insisted the church must be composed of believers only, refused to baptize infants, also called for complete religious liberty for ALL people |
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| one group of reformers who tried to reform the church of England from the inside, embraced the teaching of Calvin |
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| formed independent congregations, (some of them became Baptist) |
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| organized a separatist congregation in Gainesborough England in 1606, moved the group to Holland to escape persecution, settled in Amsterdam in buildings owned by Jan Munter (Dutch Mennonite/Anabaptist Bakehouse), |
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| First Baptist Church (ever) |
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-after studying scripture together, Smyth and his congregation concluded the church should be made up of believers who had publicly confessed Christ as Lord& who experienced believer's baptism
1609-had a baptismal service, used affusion(took 30 years before Baptists began to use immersion) |
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1612-returned to England and established 1st ever English Baptist church
-wrote A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity-first document written in English that called for complete freedom of conscience in matter of religion |
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-followers of Smyth& Helwys came to be identified as this kind of Baptist
-believed in a general atonement, and that all who believe in Jesus can be saved |
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-25 years after Helwys returned a separate group of Baptists formed
-Calvinist in theology
-limited view of atonement
by 1638 both groups of Baptists existed in England and began making their way to America |
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1631-arrived in Boston
1636-banished from Mass. Bay Colony for voicing his convictions (survived the winter b/c of his friendship w/ Native Americans)
1639-formed the first Baptist Church in America on land he purchased from Natives and named Providence(now Rhode Island) |
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-formed 2nd Baptist church in Rhode Island, in Newport
-worked to secure the charter for the Rhode Island colony from England for 14 years
-charter guaranteed religious liberty for all inhabitants and was first charter to call for "free, full, and absolute liberty of conscience" |
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-took place in the mid 1700s, colony wide movement
-Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield
-Baptists benefited greatly (in numbers)
-Regular Baptists-opposed revivals
-Separate Baptists-favored revivals |
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-enthusiastic in worship, highly evangelistic, moderately calvinistic, allowed greater participation of women
-most influential: Shubal Stearns, Daniel Marshall, Martha Stearns Marshall
-1755 founded Sandy Creek Baptist Church in North Carolina(sent out 125 preachers, est 42 churches) |
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| First Black Baptist Church |
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-Silver Bluff Baptist Church in Aiken County South Carolina (George Liele helped found this church)
-First Colored Baptist Church in Savannah Georgia
-both churches were formed in the 1770s |
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-William Carey (English Baptist) launched missions in 1792
-1812- Ann and Adoniram Judson set out as congregationalist missionaries, converted to Baptist views on the ship, ended up working in Burma as the first American Baptist Missionaries to that part of the world |
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-Luther Rice (a fellow missionary to the Judsons, who converted to Baptist views like the Judsons) returned to secure financial support
-1814, his efforts led to the formation of the Triennial Convention |
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-born a slave in Virginia, member of First Baptist Church of Richmond Virginia, purchased his freedom
-1821 became the first American Baptist missionary to Africa,
-instrumental in founding the colony of Liberia |
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| Southern Baptist Convention |
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-early 1800s, debate raged over slavery
-1845 Triennial Convention refused to appoint a slave owner as a missionary
-1845 baptists in the South gathered in Augusta, GA and organized a new convention
-W.B. Johnson elected first president |
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| American Baptist Missionary Union |
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-1845, Baptists in the north reorganized and changed the name of the Triennial Convention to this
-opened new missionfields in Africa and India
-1900 had 474 missionaries |
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-sent by the AB Missionary Union to India
-evangelized, founded schoools
-used his engineering training to help build the Buckingham Canal (and give people jobs) |
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| American Baptist Publication Society |
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-hired traveling missionaries as colporteurs to distribute literature
-1851 27 colporteurs in 7 states
-1881 114 colporteurs
-1890-built railroad chapel cars to serve in remote areas of the West (Colgate Hoyt and John Rockerfeller) |
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-the best known foreign missionary of the SBC
-served in China |
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| -1888 became the first corresponding secretary of the Woman's Missionary Union |
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| Hispanic Baptist Beginnings |
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-1880 John O. Westrup (SBC missionary to Mexico) began workt hat led to the planting of Mexican Baptist churches in the US
-1910 Mexican Baptist Convention of Texas was formed |
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| National Baptist Convention |
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| -1895 formed this convention with E.C Morris (Arkansas pastor) as first president (served 27 years) |
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-formed by the women in the National B. Convention. in 1901
-Nannie Helen Burroughs was the first corresponding secretary
-she formed the National Training School for Women and Girls
-How the Sister's are Hindered from Helping |
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-pastored a church in Hell's Kitchen, taught history at Rochestor Theological Seminary
-became a leading proponent of the Social Gospel Movement |
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-pastored First Baptist Church of Dallas for 47 years
-served as president of the SBC and the Baptist World alliance |
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| Progressive National Baptist Convention |
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| -MLK Sr, MLK Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and L. Venchael Booth formed this convention in 1961 after much debate over civil rights |
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-1979 conservatives began a process of reshaping the convention through electing a certain president
-most Baptists in the South came to refer to this as THE controversy |
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-over 35 million members
-over 50 distinct groups
-most diverse American Protestant tradition
-4 Free Will National Baptist Bodies:National Association, Original, Independent Association, and Pentecostal
-Calvinist Baptists: Old Time Missionary, Duck River, Enterprise, United, Reformed, Sovereign Grace, and Primtive
-Seventh Day Baptists have 98 churches/4900 members |
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-1200 congregations affiliate w/ Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas
-760 Korean Baptist Churches/missions organized in the US
-African Americans have 4 national bodies, several smaller ones--16 million members |
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| First Baptist church ever founded by John Smyth and Thomas Helwys in Amsterdam in Jan Munter's Bakehouse |
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| First Baptist Church on English soil, founded by Thomas Helwys |
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| First Baptist Church formed on American Soil by Roger Williams in Providence |
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| formation of the Triennial Convention |
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| formation of the Southern Baptist Convention |
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| From the larger Christian movement early Baptist received |
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1. the Bible
2. the doctrine of God
3. the doctrine of salvation |
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| According to Shurden, the norm by which Baptists interpret the Bible is |
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| Baptists do not embrace creeds because they do not believe that a singular doctrinal statement can summarize adequately the biblical mandate for behavior and belief |
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| The Baptist emphasis on the individual, according to Shurden |
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| is based on the biblical affirmation that every human being is created in the image of God |
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| Early Baptists were concerned about this for Baptism |
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| they were more concerned about the subject, not the mode |
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| "gathered church" according to Shurden |
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| consists of those individuals who have made self-conscious and voluntary decisions to confess Jesus as Lord of their lives |
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| this group of bodies has been considered superior to and has legislated the beliefs and practices of local Baptist churches |
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| --no group has this power, each church decides for itself what to believe and practice |
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| Baptism and the Lord's Supper |
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| when it comes to religious liberty Baptists, according to Shurden typically choose this relationship between church and state |
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| -separation of church and state |
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1. Soul Freedom (competency)
2. Bible Freedom
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4. Religious Freedom |
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| True or False: the General Baptists practiced baptism by immersion from the time of their founding in 1609 |
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| True or False:the General B. and the Particular B. were at one time a single group that later divided over theological differences. |
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| Particular Baptists hold this view regarding Baptism |
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| believer's baptism is the only valid baptism |
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| Some of the members of the earliest B church left that church and sought membership with |
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| Thomas Helwys asserted that the British government was guilty of this by forcing a single interpretation of scripture upon the people |
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| 1616 in prison for his views |
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| a label given to those who baptize by immersion by the 17th century Anglican cleric Daniel Featley |
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| True or False:According to Bill Leonard, the heritage of the Baptist tradition is easily and clearly traced back to the radical reformation and Ulrich Zwingli |
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| The Foundation of Christian Doctrine |
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-written by Menno Simmons
-Glen Stassen contends this writing 'laid the foundation of the Particular Baptist origins' |
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| True or False:Once he baptized himself as a Baptist, John Smyth remained in the Baptist fold for the remainder of this life. |
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| -influence by Roger Williams adoption of Baptist Beliefs |
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| Roger Williams intent for the Rhode Island colony |
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1. a place where all citizens enjoyed and exercised all civil and religious rights
2. a haven for those seeking religious freedom
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-the first baptist in Connecticut
-had no converts |
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| -imprisoned in Kittery, Main for holding his illegal religious services, forced to pay fines for doing so |
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| first Baptist church in Virginia was.. |
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| a General Six Principle Baptist congregation |
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| Among the Separate Baptist churches in the 18th century were |
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-Isaac Backus
-Shubal Stearns
-Daniel Marshall |
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-preached in churches
-scandalized the Virginia Baptists |
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| -emphasis on individual conversion & their fervent style of worship had great influence on Southern Baptists |
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| True or False: John Adams expected that there would always be a state church in Massachusetts |
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| the official established church in New England |
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| the official established church in Virginia, Georgia, and parts of South Carolina |
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| a Virginia Baptist preacher called "Swearing Jack" before his conversion, was incarcerated for more than 40 days for preaching the gospel |
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| True or False:Virginia Baptists supported the ratification of the US Constitution believing that religious liberty would be granted by benevolent politicians. |
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| -worked for the constitution of Massachusetts (1806) to have a guarantee for religious liberty |
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| -Separate Baptist pastor that influenced Tidence Lane, founder of the early Tennessee Baptist church |
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| -one prominent family in the establishment of Baptist churches in Kentucky |
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| Grandma Hale, Sarah Gardiner Hale |
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| -a leader of the earliest Baptist church in Arkansas |
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| -place where the earliest baptismal services in California took place |
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| -one of the earliest Baptist churches in Tennessee |
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| -from her wheelchair she served 50 years as secretary treasurer of the Female Mission Society |
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| Ann and Adoniram Judson set sail for India this soon after their wedding ceremony |
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| by 1834 Adoniram had done this... |
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| translated the entire Bible into Burmese |
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| Adoniram's third wife, was a fictional writer and wrote the biography of his second wife |
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| The Triennial Convention's original name |
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| the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions formed in 1814 |
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| -within three years the Triennial Convention began supporting this |
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| -led the anti-missionary movement |
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-Adoniram's second wife
-worked with the Karen people before getting married |
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| What did Adonirum and Ann Judson name their first child |
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| the two earliest African American churches |
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-Silver Bluff Baptist Church near Aiken South Carolina
-First Colored Baptist Church near Savannah, Georgia |
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| Silver Bluff Baptist Church was founded |
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| True or False:African American Baptists, unlike their white counterparts, have been unified in their organizational structures and have only one national convention. |
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| elected as the first president of the National Baptist Convention in 1895 and served in that office for 27 years |
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| How the Sisters are Hindered from Helping |
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| speech directed toward the male leadership of the national convention, Nannie Helen Burroughs served as president of the women's convention and founded a school for girls in Washington DC |
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| - the earliest Baptist work among Hispanics in 1880 in Laredo |
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| The earliest Korean Baptist Church in the United States |
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| formed in Washington D. C. |
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