Most Recent Articles from Baptist History and Heritage

• Telling Baptist stories: 400 years later 

  For the past few years, the Baptist History and Heritage Society has been in an informational mode--seeking to get the word out about the 400th...

  01/01/09 by Pamela R. Durso · More from publication

• A Baptist reality check 

  It's 2009. Baptists' 400th anniversary has arrived. This year provides wonderful opportunities to assess Baptist history and identity. Three points...

  01/01/09 by Charles W. Deweese · More from publication

• Early English Baptists 

  Upwards of seven hundred Baptist congregations are utilizing the Baptists' 400th Anniversary Celebration free bulletin inserts produced by the...

  01/01/09 by Bruce T. Gourley · More from publication

• John Smyth's request for Mennonite recognition and admission: four newly translated letters, 1610-1612: under the leadership of John Smyth and Thomas Helwys, the people who would become the first Baptists met Dutch Mennonites in Amsterdam, the Netherlands 

  Prompted by a theological disagreement with Smyth, Helwys returned to England in 1612 and planted the first General Baptist church. The...

  01/01/09 by Kirsten T. Timmer · More from publication

• Arguing regenerate church membership: Baptist identity during its first decade, 1610-1620: non-Baptists seeking membership in a Baptist church frequently inquire as to why Baptists insist that they be rebaptized 

  The explanation normally takes a while: they are told that Baptists understand baptism differently than do most denominations. (1) Whereas most...

  01/01/09 by Bill Pitts · More from publication

• John Griffith: Baptist prisoner of conscience: Baptists in late seventeenth-century England experienced persecution, just as Baptists had done since their beginning in 1609 

  Several English laws made the practice of any faith except that of the Church of England (the Anglican Church) dangerous. Since 1534, the Act of...

  01/01/09 by Keith E. Durso · More from publication

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