Missionary Baptists

Paradise Missionary Baptist Church, in Tampa, Florida

Missionary Baptists are a group of Baptists that grew out of the missionary / anti-missionary controversy that divided Baptists in the United States in the early part of the 19th century, with Missionary Baptists following the pro-missions movement position.[1] Those who opposed the innovations became known as anti-missions or Primitive Baptists[2] Since arising in the 19th century, the influence of Primitive Baptists waned as "Missionary Baptists became the mainstream".[1]

Missionary Baptist is also a term used by adherents of many African American Baptist churches and Landmark Baptist[3] churches belonging to the American Baptist Association, the Baptist Missionary Association and the Interstate and Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Garrett, Jr., James Leo (2009). Baptist Theology: A Four-Century Study. Mercer University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-88146-129-9. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
  2. Byron Cecil Lambert, The rise of the anti-mission Baptists: sources and leaders, 1800–1840 (Arno Press, 1980)
  3. Parsons, George. "Landmark Baptists". Middletownbiblechurch. Middle Town Bible Church.
  4. Wardin, Albert (1995). Baptists Around the World. Broadman and Holman. ISBN 0805410767.

Further reading


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/31/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.