A Brief History of the Baptist Tradition
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The Baptist tradition is one of the largest Protestant approaches to Christianity and is international in scope.
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A Brief History of the Baptist Tradition
- 1. By: Reverend Evan D. Howard
- 2. As Pastor of the Community Church of Providence in Rhode Island, the Reverend Evan D. Howard has led educational forums on Baptist history, the historical Jesus, and Biblical interpretation.
- 3. The Baptist tradition is one of the largest Protestant approaches to Christianity and is international in scope. Baptists share the biblical beliefs of other Protestant churches but emphasize the baptism of professing believers by immersion. They derive this belief from the practices of John the Baptist, Christ, and the apostles. In more recent times, the Baptist tradition emerged from English Separatism in the seventeenth century.
- 4. Today the Baptist faith has over 100 million practitioners, including worshippers of different ethnicities and sociopolitical persuasions worldwide.