Primitive Baptists
Primitive Baptists, also known as Hard Shell Baptists or Anti-Mission Baptists,[1] are conservative, Calvinist Baptists adhering to beliefs that formed out of the controversy among Baptists in the early 1800s over the appropriateness of mission boards, Bible tract societies, and temperance societies.[2]
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[edit] Origins
This controversy over whether churches or members should participate in mission boards, bible tract societies, and temperance societies led the Primitive Baptists to separate from other general Baptist groups that supported such organizations, and to make declarations of opposition to such organizations in articles like the Kehukee Association Declaration of 1827.[2][3]
Primitive Baptist churches arose in the mountainous regions of the southeastern United States, where they are found in their greatest numbers.[1][4]
[edit] Theological views
Primitive Baptists hold Calvinist views and are characterized by "intense conservatism".[1][4]
[edit] Influence
Since arising in the 19th Century, the influence of Primitive Baptists has waned as "Missionary Baptists became the mainstream".[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Baptists". The Columbia Encyclopedia (Sixth ed.). Encyclopedia.com. 2008. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Baptists.aspx#1. Retrieved 2012-1-25.
- ^ a b Mead, Frank S., Samuel S. Hill and Craig D. Atwood (2005). Handbook of Denominations in the United States (Twelfth ed.). Nashville: Abingdon Press. pp. 207–208. ISBN 0-687-05784-1.
- ^ a b Garrett, Jr., James Leo (2009). Baptist Theology: A Four-Century Study. Mercer University Press. p. 212. ISBN 9780881461299. http://books.google.com/books?id=epEHq0mTsKgC&lpg=PA209&pg=PA212#v=onepage. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
- ^ a b Crowley, John G. (1998). Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South: 1815 to the Present. University of Florida Press. p. xi. ISBN 9780813016405. http://books.google.com/books?id=6TTtLEXwYCUC&pg=PP17#v=onepage. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
[edit] Further reading
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown. "The Antimission Movement in the Jacksonian South: A Study in Regional Folk Culture," Journal of Southern History Vol. 36, No. 4 (Nov., 1970), pp. 501–529 in JSTOR
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