Primitive Baptist - Research Notes
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Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
- http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/baptists.htm
- scholars place Baptist origins in the English Separatist movement of the 1600s.
- by 1650 there were three main branches under the Baptist label: General Baptists, who proclaimed a universal opportunity for salvation; Particular Baptists, who preached an atonement limited to certain groups; and the Seventh Day Baptists, distinguished by their insistence upon the keeping of the Sabbath.
- http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/Anabaptists.htm
- wanted to discard such rituals as infant baptism and the Mass. In 1525, the radicals broke with the state church in Zurich and rebaptized each other in a member's home.
- Anabaptists today include such groups as Mennonites and Amish; some scholars would include also the Quakers and Moravians,
- http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/Amish.htm
- A subset of groups of the larger Anabaptist movement.
- first large group of Amish settlers to North America arrived in Philadelphia in 1737
- foot washing
Wikipedia - Primitive Baptists
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_Baptists
- Primitive Baptists – also known as Hard Shell Baptists or Old School Baptists – are conservative Baptists adhering to a degree of Calvinist beliefs that coalesced out of the controversy among Baptists in the early 19th century over the appropriateness of mission boards, tract societies, and temperance societies.[1][2] The adjective "primitive" in the name is used in the sense of "original".[1]
- Foot washing - Most Primitive Baptists perform foot washing as a symbol of humility and service among the membership.[16][17] The sexes are separated during the ritual where one person washes the feet of another.[16][17][18] The practice is credited with increasing equality, as opposed to hierarchy, within Primitive Baptist churches.[19]
- Primitive Baptists trace their origins to the New Testament era,[3] rather than to John Calvin.