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- Title
Arguing Regenerate Church Membership: Baptist Identity during Its First Decade, 1610-1620.
- Authors
Pitts, Bill
- Abstract
The article discusses the identity of the Baptist Church in England based on its historical views of baptism in the early decades of the 17th-century. The interpretation and arguments regarding Baptist identity by founder Thomas Helwys is examined. The views of Baptist co-founder John Smyth about the relationship between faith and baptism are also addressed. According to the author, the belief of the Baptist Church of the baptism of believers through immersion and its refusal to acknowledge infant baptism is the early Baptists' main legacy.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; BAPTISM &; church membership; BAPTISM; BAPTISTS -- Doctrines; PRIMITIVE Baptists; RELIGIOUS identity; HELWYS, Thomas; SMYTH, John, d. 1612
- Publication
Baptist History & Heritage, 2009, Vol 44, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
0005-5719
- Publication type
Article