Baptist Christianity Explained: A Global Beginner’s Guide to Believer’s Baptism, Biblical Authority, Church Freedom, and Baptist Life - Softcover

Abeto, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798190025194

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

What does the word Baptist actually tell you about a church?

One Baptist congregation may sing from hymnals beneath stained-glass windows. Another may gather in a converted warehouse with a worship band and coffee in the lobby. Some support women in ministry, while others reject the practice. Some are politically progressive. Others defend strict gender roles, biblical inerrancy, or Calvinist theology. All may call themselves Baptist, yet no pope, patriarch, archbishop, or worldwide governing body can settle their disagreements.

Baptist Christianity Explained offers a clear and globally minded introduction to one of Christianity’s largest and most diverse families. It traces Baptist origins in seventeenth-century dissent, explains believer’s baptism, biblical authority, congregational government, worship, Communion, missions, religious liberty, and ordinary church life.

The book also examines the harder parts of Baptist history: slavery, racial division, political power, conflicts over women in ministry, sexuality, church discipline, safeguarding, and the limits of local autonomy.

At the center is a lasting tension. Baptists built churches around personal faith, freedom of conscience, and the independence of the local congregation. What happens when millions of independent churches disagree about what those principles require?

Written for newcomers, students, curious Christians, and readers exploring the world’s denominations, this book neither promotes nor attacks Baptist Christianity. It explains how the tradition works, why it keeps dividing, and why its language of freedom continues to attract believers around the world.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798190025194
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
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