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Baptists
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1. England The Baptist movement emerged among English refugees (Refugees of conscience) who followed the Congregationalist constitutional model of the Puritan (Puritanism) Robert Browne (1550-1633) and had fled to Holland in 1607 on account of their “non-conformist” stance that diverged from the Church of England (Anglicanism). Here they met Mennonites (Anabaptists) under whose influence they introduced believers’ baptism. In 1609 the leader John Smyth baptized himself (which he later regretted) a…
Date:
2019-10-14
Free church
(1,943 words)
1. Definition and origin The centuries following the Reformation witnessed an internal fragmentation within Protestantism that gave birth to the phenomenon of free churches. Earlier scholarship saw the cradle of this movement in Zürich, where the Anabaptists first appeared (Fritz Blanke). It is noteworthy that the term itself first appeared in 1843 in Scotland and in 1847 in Switzerland. The phenomenon is therefore older than the term.In Scotland there had been a smoldering conflict since the 18th century between the rights of the gentry with patronage…
Date:
2019-10-14
