Missionary Baptists

Cornel West preaching at a Missionary Baptist church in New Jersey

Missionary Baptists are a group of Baptists that grew out of the missionary / anti-missionary controversy that divided Baptists in the United States in the early part of the 19th century, with Missionary Baptists following the pro-missions movement position.^[1] Those who opposed the innovations became known as anti-missions or Primitive Baptists.^[2] Since arising in the 19th century, the influence of Primitive Baptists waned as "Missionary Baptists became the mainstream".^[1] Missionary Baptists do not constitute a distinct denomination, and many affiliate with the Southern Baptist Convention.^{[citation needed]}

Missionary Baptist is also a term used by adherents of many African American and Landmark^[3] Baptist churches belonging to the American Baptist Association, the Baptist Missionary Association of America and the Interstate and Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Garrett, James Leo Jr. (2009). Baptist Theology: A Four-Century Study. Mercer University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-88146-129-9. Retrieved 2011-01-08.
^ Byron Cecil Lambert, The rise of the anti-mission Baptists: sources and leaders, 1800–1840 (Arno Press, 1980)
^ Parsons, George. "Landmark Baptists". Middletownbiblechurch. Middle Town Bible Church.
^ Wardin, Albert (1995). Baptists Around the World. Broadman and Holman. ISBN 0805410767.

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