Word: baptisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baptists try hard to carry on the faith and practice of primitive Christianity. To them, adult baptism is not merely a quaint traditional rite; it sharply points to their conviction that the Christian faith can be accepted only by one who can think and speak for himself.* Similarly, insistence on baptism by immersion, as it is presented in the Bible, fulfills the twin symbolism of washing from sin and of death and rebirth, as well as pointing to the Baptists' conviction that Scripture is the complete and sufficient basis of the Christian faith. Orthodox Christian tradition regards the church...
This was the Bible Belt, but it is no longer. Two generations of Southerners have been moving into cities; the tiny sects have been drying up, and old hellfire revivals are fewer and farther between in the highly organized world of Billy Graham, Oral Roberts and TV. Southern Baptism today is bigger, busier and a lot better than ever. For a case in point, there is Pastor Ted Adams and Richmond's First Baptist Church...
...Central Park Baptist Church hauled a coffin into his sanctuary and preached a sermon on the evils of dictatorship (in newspaper ads he labeled it "Stalin's funeral oration"). But, on the whole, it is the new facts rather than the old, familiar figures of Southern Baptism that are important...
...shines bright on Southern Baptism. It is making the tough transition from hot-hearted particularity to large-scale stewardship, and still not losing the essence of primitive Christianity. But the transition is far from over...
...Over the centuries, many groups upheld this view (as against infant baptism, which became generally accepted in Christendom), among them the 3rd century Donatists, some of the 12th century Petrobrusians and Waldensians, the 15th century Bohemian Brethren. It was not until the Reformation that the issue really became heated, with the rise in the 16th century of the Anabaptists (literally, Re-Baptizers), a collection of sects that all opposed the baptism of infants, but that also opposed, variously, oaths, military service and the holding of public office. The sects were ruthlessly put down, but some (the Mennonites and Hutterites) regained...