Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an evangelical Protestant church of congregational polity, following the Reformed tradition in worship and believing in freedom of conscience, separation of church and state, and baptism only of voluntary, conscious believers.
- noun One that baptizes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who administers baptism: the title (with a capital letter) of John, the forerunner of Christ.
- noun [capitalized] A member or an adherent of one of those Christian denominations which maintain that baptism can be administered only upon a personal profession of Christian faith.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.
- noun One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See
Anabaptist . - noun a sect of Baptists who are Arminian in doctrine, and practice open communion.
- noun a sect of Baptists who keep the seventh day of the week, or Saturday, as the Sabbath. See
Sabbatarian . The Dunkers and Campbellites are also Baptists.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Protestant denomination ofChristianity , which believes in thebaptism of believers, as opposed to the baptism ofinfants . - noun An
adherent of this denomination. - adjective Of, relating to, or adhering to the Baptist religious denomination.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun follower of Baptistic doctrines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The Rev.Dr. Bright, at present editor of the Baptist _Examiner_, was at that tune a bookseller of the firm of Bennett & Bright, and publisher of the _Baptist
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The term Baptist has its origins with the anabaptists of the 16th century.
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This waning reputation led some SBC congregations to drop the word "Baptist" from their church's name.
Jonathan Merritt: What's In A Name? A Lot If You're The Southern Baptist Convention Jonathan Merritt 2011
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John the Baptist is the only saint singled out for inclusion in this liturgical manuscript.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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St. John the Baptist is the saint of adulthood, of maturity.
Solemnity of the Birth of St. John the Baptist Marguerite 2007
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There was a hand-shaped reliquary containing an arm-bone (of St. John the Baptist?), which pointed at the sky just like John the Baptist is always shown doing.
Reliquaries: Saints Preserve(d for) Us! Heather McDougal 2007
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There was a hand-shaped reliquary containing an arm-bone (of St. John the Baptist?), which pointed at the sky just like John the Baptist is always shown doing.
Archive 2007-05-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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St. John the Baptist is the saint of adulthood, of maturity.
Archive 2007-06-01 Marguerite 2007
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I can remember summer nights when we'd put down what we called a Baptist pallet and we listened to the grown-ups talk.
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So what is more problematic for the SBC - the word "Baptist" or the word "Southern"?
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2011
gc commented on the word Baptist
Baptists are not protestants.
September 16, 2009