REL 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Baptism Of Jesus, Progressive National Baptist Convention, Believers Church

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Religion
• Course: REL 1350
• Professor: Katherine Smith

Document Summary

Baptist founder: baptists have no well-known founder like the lutherans (martin luther) or the. Methodists (john wesley) or the presbyterian/reformed tradition (john calvin: for much of baptist history, most baptists would have said the baptist church was founded when john the baptist baptized jesus in the jordan river. Real baptist origins: baptists are protestants and develop out of the english protestant reformation, first church by englishmen, john smyth and thomas helwys, in holland (1609) John smyth, founder: puritan-separatist, leave england for freedom to worship, amsterdam, netherlands, conflict with other separatists over congregationalism. Congregationalism whole group/democratic answers to god, not a human authority: organizes a baptist church, 1609. Concludes believer"s baptism is the new testament and thus only method of entering the church. Se-baptism then baptized the 40 members to reconstitute the church as a new testament church. Since infant baptism is false, declared that his congregation was not a church.