Particular Baptist
- Grew from
- Baptist
- From
- 1638 AD
- Origin
- London
- Confession
- Second London Baptist Confession 1689 AD
Baptists of Calvinist conviction, emerging from London separatism around 1638 and by the end of the century the larger of the two lines. Their confession of 1689 deliberately followed the Westminster Confession clause by clause except on baptism and the church, to show how narrow the actual disagreement was.
What marks it out
Particular redemption — the atonement as effectual for the elect — held together with believers' baptism and congregational government. This is the tradition of Bunyan, Carey and Spurgeon, and through Carey the beginning of the modern missionary movement.
Figures
- John Bunyan
1628–1688
The Pilgrim's Progress, written in gaol
- William Carey
1761–1834
The society that began the modern missionary movement
- Hudson Taylor
1832–1905
A mission that dressed and lived Chinese
- Charles Spurgeon
1834–1892
The largest congregation in the world, before amplification
Alongside it
Also from Baptist.
- General Baptist (1609 AD)
- Restorationist churches (1801 AD)
- Southern Baptist (1845 AD)
- Adventist (1863 AD)
In the record
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1792–1910 AD Migration
The modern missionary movement
European and American missions planted churches across the global south, which is where most Christians now live.
This body appears in the history but does not carry recorded doctrinal positions here, so it is absent from the comparison panels.