General Baptist Origins and Original Sin
Whether John Smyth and the General Baptists emerged out of the Anabaptist or English Separatist movement remains a subject of debate. One understudied point in this debate is Smyth's developing thought on the subject of Original Sin. Careful study of Smyth's writings reveals that he adhere...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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Baptist quarterly
Year: 2020, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 47-55 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles KDG Free church NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
John Smyth
B Riedemann's Rechenshaft B Waterlander Mennonites B Baptist origins B English Separatism B Original Sin |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Whether John Smyth and the General Baptists emerged out of the Anabaptist or English Separatist movement remains a subject of debate. One understudied point in this debate is Smyth's developing thought on the subject of Original Sin. Careful study of Smyth's writings reveals that he adhered to a traditional, Augustinian, understanding of Original Sin until after he founded the first Baptist Church. Once this church was founded, his views shifted in a distinctly Anabaptist direction, not a merely Arminian one. This adds another important data point in favour of the English Separatist theory of Baptist origins. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-7731 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Baptist quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2019.1607199 |