Baptist

This source names Baptist directly: "Leroy Fitts's A History of Black Baptists is an academic history, published by Broadman Press, of Black Baptist churches in America from their origins through the twentieth century."

This source names Baptist directly: "The Southern Baptist Convention's own explanation of the Cooperative Program, its unified plan of giving in which each autonomous cooperating church voluntarily decides what percentage of its..."

This source names Baptist directly: "Baptist News Global's obituary of Addie Davis, who was ordained to the gospel ministry by Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina on 9 August 1964, the first woman ordained by a..."

This source names Baptist directly: "religious landscape is Southern Baptist and Methodist country, but its most consequential religious history is the Black church's role in the civil rights movement."

This source names Baptist directly: "Wikipedia's article on American Baptist Churches USA, community edited."

This source names Baptist directly: "dedicated article on the American Baptist Publication Society, founded 1824 in Washington, D.C."

Baptists divided in 1845 over whether a slaveholder could be appointed a missionary, producing the Southern Baptist Convention.

This source names Baptist directly: "frontier revivalism, with Southern Baptist and Methodist camp meetings spreading through the Ozarks and the Delta in the early nineteenth century and leaving a still visible culture of small rural..."

This source names Baptist directly: "this reference collection of historic Baptist confessions of faith, published by Judson Press, a Baptist publishing house, gathering primary confessional documents from different Baptist bodies..."

This source names Baptist directly: "Wikipedia's article on the Baptist Faith and Message, read directly for this pass, which states the original was adopted in 1925 under a committee led by E."

This source names Baptist directly: "The Wikipedia article on the Baptist World Alliance, reporting that per an Alliance census released in 2025, the BWA counts 283 participating Baptist fellowships in 138 countries and territories..."

This source names Baptist directly: "The Baptist World Alliance's own membership information, read 2026-08-22, reporting an Alliance census of 283 participating Baptist fellowships in 138 countries with 178,000 churches and 53,000,000..."

This source names Baptist directly: "A Baptist heritage center's article explaining local church autonomy as the defining Baptist polity principle, distinguishing it from any denominational body's authority over a local congregation."

This source names Baptist directly: "21, 2018, was an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became the most widely heard Christian evangelist of the twentieth century."

This source names Baptist directly: "enslaved parents and was ordained a Baptist minister before being drawn toward the Holiness movement's emphasis on sanctification as a distinct experience following conversion."

This source names Baptist directly: "of the congregations, Black and white, Baptist and Unitarian, that have used the building across its history, which should be sought in dedicated studies."

This source names Baptist directly: "14 June 2022, on the Southern Baptist Convention's Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force presenting its recommendations to the denomination's annual meeting: a public "Ministry Check" website..."

This source names Baptist directly: "Charles Harrison Mason, a licensed Baptist minister pushed out of the Baptist tradition over his holiness preaching, organized the church at Lexington, Mississippi, in 1897."

This source names Baptist directly: "Mason and Charles Price Jones's Baptist background and 1897 founding, the 1907 Azusa Street era split into Pentecostal and Holiness factions, episcopal polity, the Assemblies of God's 1914 departure..."

This source names Baptist directly: "Biblical Recorder / Baptist Press network reporting, read 2026-08-22, on Southern Baptist Convention Cooperative Program giving for fiscal year 2023-2024 against its adopted budget goal."

This source names Baptist directly: "article on Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church is a state sponsored reference encyclopedia entry on the Montgomery church founded in 1877, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974 and..."

This source names Baptist directly: "including Metropolitan AME and Shiloh Baptist, were central to organising the civil rights movement's march on Washington in 1963."

This source names Baptist directly: "The American Baptist Churches USA's own General Board policy statement on tithing, adopted June 1992, stating throughout that tithing is a grateful response to grace rather than a legalistic..."

This source names Baptist directly: "groups non-Muslim as of May 2007, with Baptist, Pentecostal and Korean Christian congregations facing persistent denial, and documents the Ferghana Jehovah's Witnesses congregation's deregistration..."

This source names Baptist directly: "Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr."

This source names Baptist directly: "chapel in the church of Saint John the Baptist, now Saint Bavo's Cathedral, its central panel, the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, shows a vast gathering of saints, martyrs, popes and prophets..."

This source names Baptist directly: "who imprisoned and executed John the Baptist for denouncing his marriage to Herodias, his brother's former wife, and as the Herod before whom Luke's gospel places a brief hearing of Jesus during the..."

This source names Baptist directly: "member denominations span Methodist, Baptist and Pentecostal church government and doctrine, grouped together because each was founded by and for Black Christians excluded from, or segregated..."

This source names Baptist directly: "This is the Progressive National Baptist Convention's own history page, published on the denomination's official website, describing its own founding and institutional history."

Ordained a Baptist minister, though his mature ministry, especially the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples he co-founded in 1944, was deliberately interracial and interfaith rather than confined to Baptist practice.

This source names Baptist directly: "Topeka is also home to the Westboro Baptist Church, an independent congregation whose picketing campaigns have been condemned by nearly every other Baptist body in the country."

This source names Baptist directly: "Southern Baptist and Christian Church congregations remain dominant across the state."

This source names Baptist directly: "Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson's own 1802 letter, articulates his reading of the First Amendment as building a wall of separation between church and state, a phrase that..."

Ordained Baptist minister; pastored Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, and later co-pastored Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, with his father.

This source names Baptist directly: "University, covering his life, his Baptist ministry and his leadership of the civil rights movement."

This source names Baptist directly: "Black voters relied on rural Baptist and Methodist congregations for shelter, meeting space and leadership, and several churches that hosted organisers were burned in retaliation."

This source names Baptist directly: "Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's own news site, reporting that its president R."

Founded and led the National Baptist Convention's Woman's Convention, the largest Black women's organization in the country for decades, after her 1900 address on women's exclusion from denominational leadership.

This source names Baptist directly: "edited article on the National Baptist Convention of America International."

This source names Baptist directly: "organization record for National Baptist Convention USA Inc, showing no Form 990 filings on file and stating that the organization is not required to submit tax filings because the Internal Revenue..."

This source names Baptist directly: "Wikipedia's article on the National Baptist Convention, USA, community edited."

This source names Baptist directly: "religious settlements in the country. Baptist congregations, both white Southern Baptist and historically Black denominations, are the state's dominant tradition."

This source names Baptist directly: "published 27 May 2022, on the Southern Baptist Convention's own release, two days after the Guidepost Solutions investigation's own findings were published, of a 205 page database naming more than..."

This source names Baptist directly: "The Southern Baptist Convention's own resolution "On Supporting A Federal Marriage Amendment," adopted 15 to 16 June 2004 at the Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, restating the convention's position..."

This source names Baptist directly: "The Southern Baptist Convention's own resolution, adopted at its annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio, 16 to 17 June 2015, in anticipation of the Supreme Court's Obergefell ruling."

This source names Baptist directly: "Tremont Temple Baptist Church's own Our Story page is an institutional self account, not independent scholarly history; the atlas records no individual author because the page speaks in the..."

This source names Baptist directly: "entry on the Progressive National Baptist Convention, whose Marriage subsection states that the denomination leaves it up to local churches to decide on blessings of same-sex marriage, citing the..."

This source names Baptist directly: "profile for the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc., drawing on the 2020 Religious Congregations and Membership Study, which counted 254,571 members across 363 congregations in the United..."

This source names Baptist directly: "The Progressive National Baptist Convention's own Constitution and By-Laws, whose Article 1, Section 1a requires each member Baptist church, not individual members directly, to contribute at least..."

This source names Baptist directly: "of the Orisha and Spiritual Baptist Faiths, Frances Henry's 2003 academic study from the University of the West Indies Press, drawn from years of Trinidad fieldwork, traces the Orisha and Spiritual..."

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There is no monastic life and no celibate clergy, and pastors ordinarily marry.

There is no confirmation, since the profession of faith precedes baptism rather than following it years after.

Baptism is for those who have professed faith, so the baptism of an infant is not a baptism at all and a person so treated is baptised on profession later. This is the point on which the tradition takes its name.

Baptism and the Lord's Supper are two ordinances, not seven sacraments, and neither conveys grace.

The veneration of images is rejected outright.

Prayer is offered to God alone, and the saints are not asked to intercede.

Baptists reject papal primacy, holding to the priesthood of all believers and the autonomy of the local congregation instead of any single earthly head of the church.

Baptists reject Purgatory; the two Baptist ordinances, baptism and the Lord's Supper, are held to be symbolic acts of obedience, not means of grace or purification after death.

Baptists reject the Real Presence and transubstantiation; the Lord's Supper is a symbolic memorial act per the Baptist Faith and Message, Article VII.

Baptist churches keep a communion table rather than an altar, because the supper is an ordinance remembered and not a sacrifice offered.

Baptist churches are congregational, and no officer outside the local congregation holds authority over it.

Baptist churches are gathered congregations, not territories, and associate voluntarily rather than under a bishop.

Baptist teaching recognises no state of life more perfect than any other and has never had vowed communities.

Refused, since Baptist churches hold that no state of life is more consecrated than another and that the ordinary Christian calling is lived in the world.

Baptist polity holds each gathered congregation competent to govern itself under Christ, which leaves no room for an office ruling the whole church.

A Baptist church is a congregation of professed believers who have chosen one another, which is precisely what a parish is not.

Refused, on the ground that every believer has direct access to God and no mediating order stands between.

Baptist confessions follow the Reformed canon in excluding Tobit, so Raphael has no scriptural warrant in Baptist teaching.

The memorial view: the supper is an ordinance of remembrance rather than a means of grace conveying a presence.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 1 Esdras, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 2 Esdras, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 3 Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize 4 Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Additions to Daniel, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Additions to Esther, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Baruch, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Judith, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Book of Tobit, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Books of the Maccabees, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Letter of Jeremiah, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Prayer of Manasseh, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Psalm 151, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Wisdom of Sirach, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

This tradition holds the standard thirty-nine-book Protestant Old Testament and does not canonize Wisdom of Solomon, following the confessional consensus among Protestant bodies against the wider Trent and Synod of Jerusalem deuterocanon.

Sung as an invitation hymn at the close of the sermon, which is the moment Baptist worship is built toward.

The pastor of a Baptist congregation is called by that congregation and serves it, and his authority comes from that call rather than from an office above it.

Sacred Harp singing spread through the Baptist South as a singing school held apart from Sunday worship, which is how it survived the arrival of the organ in the church.

The guarantee against an establishment of religion answers directly the disabilities Baptists had suffered in the colonies, and the tradition has defended it as a religious principle rather than only a civil one.

Baptist churches confess the Nicene faith in substance while holding that no council has authority over a gathered congregation, so the creed is received as testimony and never imposed as a term of communion.

Baptists were the decisive constituency for disestablishment in Virginia, and the refusal of any established church is a Baptist principle long before it is an American one.

Most Baptist congregations serve the cup in individual glasses rather than from a common chalice, a nineteenth century change that spread on hygienic grounds and settled into practice.

Baptist deacons are chosen by the congregation to serve it and to support the pastor. The office is not an order of ministry and confers no authority to preach or to administer the ordinances.

Baptist confessions hold justification by faith alone, faith read as reliance on Christ rather than as an infused virtue perfected by charity.

Baptist usage follows the New Testament in calling every believer a saint, so the word names the whole church rather than a class within it.

Atonement for sin through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The Baptist confessions of the seventeenth century follow the Western creed on the procession of the Spirit, taking that article over from the Westminster Confession unchanged.

The Kingdom of God, present and coming, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

A final judgment of all people at Christ's return is held, with the outcome settled by the relation to Christ established in this life.

The Lord's Prayer is taught and used, though the tradition's preference for free prayer means it is recited far less often in public worship than in the liturgical churches.

The most widely used Baptist confession of the nineteenth century, presented in 1833 and expanded in 1853, adopted directly or in edited form by several Baptist bodies and used as the model for others.

Every believer is held competent to approach God directly and to read scripture without a mediating clergy, which is the ground of the congregational polity this body keeps.

The virgin birth of Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

The words of institution are read as the warrant for the Supper, which is a memorial act of obedience.

The problem of evil is a live theological question this tradition addresses within classical theism.

The tithe is taught and expected far more explicitly here than in the older Western churches, and is the ordinary basis on which a congregation supports itself and its missionaries.

God's transcendence and immanence are affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

A Baptist congregation organized in 1839 on a free, unassigned seating policy associated with its early reputation for racial integration.

The doctrine of the Trinity, one God in three persons, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.

Dispensational premillennialism, widely held across the American bodies though not confessed by all of them.