Missionary Baptists
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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. Those who opposed the innovations became known as anti-missions or Primitive Baptists Since arising in the 19th Century, the influence of Primitive Baptists waned as "Missionary Baptists became the mainstream".
Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...
/ anti-missionary controversy that divided Baptists in the United States
United States
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in the early part of the 19th century, with Missionary Baptists following the pro-missions movement position. Those who opposed the innovations became known as anti-missions or Primitive Baptists Since arising in the 19th Century, the influence of Primitive Baptists waned as "Missionary Baptists became the mainstream".
Further reading
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown. "The Antimission Movement in the Jacksonian South: A Study in Regional Folk Culture," Journal of Southern History Vol. 36, No. 4 (Nov., 1970), pp. 501-529 in JSTOR