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Baptists — • A Protestant denomination which exists chiefly in English speaking countries and owes its name to its characteristic doctrine and practice regarding baptism Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Baptists Baptists … Catholic encyclopedia
Free Will Baptists — See Free Baptists … Ballentine's law dictionary
Free Will Baptist Church — (or Free Will Baptists) is a group of churches that share a common history, name, and an acceptance of the Arminian theology of free grace, free salvation, and free will, based on the idea of general atonement. Free Will Baptists share similar… … Wikipedia
Baptists — Baptists constitute one of the largest Free Church movements within the Protestant community. Their theological origins can be traced back to Anabaptists/Mennonites of the early Reformation, but their history really begins as a small fringe of … Encyclopedia of Protestantism
Free Villages — is the term used for Caribbean settlements, particularly in Jamaica, founded in the 1830s and 1840s independent of the control of plantation owners and other major estates.Pioneering the conceptStarting in the 1830s, in anticipation of… … Wikipedia
Free Christian — Free Christians, sometimes known as Non Subscribing Protestants or Non Creedal Dissenters [ cite book |title= Studies In English Dissent |last= Nuttall|first= Geoffrey F.|year= 2002|publisher= Quinta Press|location= |isbn= 1 897856 14 8|pages= ;… … Wikipedia
free-will — free will, freewill free will , a. Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering. [1913 Webster] {Freewill Baptists}. See under {Baptist}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Free Church — any of the Protestant religious groups in the UK that are not part of the Church of England. The Free Churches include the Baptists, the Methodists, the United Reformed Church and the Church of Scotland … Dictionary of contemporary English
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Baptists in the United States — Brief historyThe origins of the Baptist faith go back to the Reformation in England in the sixteenth century. Various dissenters, known as Puritans , called for the Church of England to be stripped of its remaining Catholic influences and return… … Wikipedia
