Independent Baptist
Independent Baptist churches (some also called Independent Fundamental Baptist, or IFB) are Christian congregations, generally holding to conservative (primarily fundamentalist) Baptist beliefs, and notable for choosing not to join a Baptist denomination.
History
The Independent Baptist tradition began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among local denominational Baptist congregations concerned about the perceived advancement of modernism and liberalism into national Baptist denominations and conventions in the United States and United Kingdom.[1]
In response to the concerns, some local Baptist churches separated en masse from their former denominations and conventions and reestablished the congregations as Independent Baptist churches. In other cases, the more conservative members of existing churches withdrew from their local congregation and set about establishing new Independent Baptist churches.[2]
Demographics
Members of Independent Baptist churches comprised three percent of the United States adult population according to a 2008 survey.[3] According to the same survey, they represent less than 15 percent of adults who consider themselves Baptist.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Marsden (1980), pp. 55-62, 118-23.
- ^ Beale, David O. (1986). In Pursuit of Purity: American Fundamentalism Since 1850. BJU Press. ISBN 9780890843505.[page needed]
- ^ a b "Religious Composition of the U.S.". U.S. Religious Life Survey (PDF). Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
- Marsden; George M. (1980). Fundamentalism and American Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-502758-2
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