Independent Baptist

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Independent Baptist churches (some also called Independent Fundamental Baptist, or IFB) are Christian congregations generally holding to conservative Baptist beliefs.

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History [edit]

The Independent Baptist tradition began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among local Baptist congregations concerned about the perceived advancement of modernism and liberalism into national Baptist denominations and conventions in the United States and England. Some local Baptist churches separated from their former denominations and conventions and reestablished themselves as independent churches, while the more conservative elements of other churches set about establishing new Independent Baptist churches instead of remaining within their former denominational churches.[1]

Demographics [edit]

Members of Independent Baptist churches comprised three percent of the United States adult population according to a 2008 survey.[2] According to the same survey, they represent less than 15 percent of adults who consider themselves Baptist.[2]

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References [edit]

  1. ^ Beale, David O. (1986). In Pursuit of Purity: American Fundamentalism Since 1850. BJU Press. ISBN 9780890843505. [page needed]
  2. ^ a b "Religious Composition of the U.S.". U.S. Religious Life Survey. Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Retrieved 2012-09-13. 

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