Baptist

Examples of Baptist in the following topics:

• The Anglican Class

  • The Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, and other evangelicals directly challenged these lax moral standards and refused to tolerate them in their ranks.
  • Baptists, German Lutherans, and Presbyterians funded their own ministers and favored disestablishment of the Anglican Church.

• Frontier Revivals

  • Stone (1772–1844) and Alexander Campbell (1788–1866), the camp meeting revival became a major mode of church expansion for denominations such as the Methodists and Baptists.
  • Numerous Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist ministers participated in the services.

• Separating Church and State

  • However, the phrase "separation of church and state" in this context is generally traced to a January 1, 1802, letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut and published in a Massachusetts newspaper.
  • Echoing the language of the founder of the first Baptist church in America, Roger Williams—who had written in 1644 of a "hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world"—Jefferson wrote, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State."
  • Virginia had disestablished the gentry-supported Church of England during and after the American Revolution, leaving the Baptists in a position of political influence.
  • He garnered support among the local Baptists by warning them that the Constitution had no safeguard against creating a new national church.
  • To head off Barber's challenge, Madison met with influential Baptist preacher John Leland and promised that, in exchange for Leland's support of ratification, he would sponsor several amendments.

• Christian Fundamentalism

  • As an organized movement, it began in the 1920s within Protestant churches, especially Baptist and Presbyterian branches.
  • Fundamentalist movements were found in most North American Protestant denominations by 1919, with the attack on modernism in theology launched by the Fundamentalists in the Baptist and Presbyterian churches, with Fundamentalism becoming especially controversial among Presbyterians.
  • Although Fundamentalism began in America's northern regions, its greatest popular strength was in the South, especially among Southern Baptists.
  • The leading organizer of the Fundamentalist campaign against modernism was William Bell Riley, a Northern Baptist based in Minneapolis, where his Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School (1902), Northwestern Evangelical Seminary (1935), and Northwestern College (1944) produced thousands of graduates.

• Slave Religion

  • Blassingame concludes that cross-cultural exchanges occurred on southern plantations, arguing that "acculturation in the United States involved the mutual interaction between two cultures, with Europeans and Africans borrowing from each other. " Blassingame asserts that the most significant instance revolved around Protestant Christianity (primarily Baptist and Methodist churches): "The number of blacks who received religious instruction in antebellum white churches is significant because the church was the only institution other than the plantation which played a major role in acculturating the slave. " Christianity and enslaved black ministers represented another aspect of slave culture which the slaves used to create their own communities.

• The Second Great Awakening

  • The movement began around 1790 and gained momentum by 1800; after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement.
  • The numerical strength of the Baptists and Methodists rose relative to that of the denominations dominant in the colonial period, such as the Anglicans, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Reformed.
  • The burst of religious enthusiasm that began in Kentucky and Tennessee in the 1790s and early 1800s among Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians owed much to the uniqueness of the early decades of the republic.

• The Revival of Domesticity and Religion

  • The Conservative Baptist Association also emerged in 1947 as part of the continuing Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy within the Northern Baptist Convention.
  • The forming churches were fundamentalist/conservative churches that had remained in cooperation with the Northern Baptist Convention after other churches had left, such as those that formed the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches.

• Evolution of Protestantism

  • The Great Awakening saw the rise of several Protestant denominations, including Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists (who emphasized adult baptism of converted Christians rather than infant baptism).
  • Roger Williams, president of the Colony of Rhode Island, was a religious reformer and early Baptist.

• Progressivism and Religion

  • One of the defining theologians for the Social Gospel movement was Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist pastor of a congregation located in Hell's Kitchen.
  • "GROUP OF COLORED WOMEN IN FAITH HOME, NEW ORLEANS, IN 1898" Shows group of women on porch and seated on steps of "Faith Home", a Baptist run charity house giving home to destitute and feeble female former slaves.

• Markets and Missionaries

  • Baptist minister Jim Goodhart set up an employment bureau, and provided food and lodging for tramps and hobos at the mission he ran.
  • One of the defining theologians for the Social Gospel movement was Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist pastor of a congregation located in Hell’s Kitchen in New York City.