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Baptist (4099 words) |
 | Baptists emphasize that the remembrance is symbolic of Christ's body and reject literal views of communion such as transubstantiation and consubstantiation held by other Christian groups based on their interpretation of John 6. |
| Baptists who were imprisoned or died for their beliefs have played an important role in the historical struggle for freedom of religion and separation of church and state in England, the United States, and other countries. |
| Baptist comes from the Greek word 'baptistès' (to submerge), and the Latin 'baptista', and is in direct connection to 'the baptiser', 'John the Baptist'. |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baptists (3986 words) |
| The Philadelphia Confession is the Westminster (Presbyterian) Confession (1646) revised in a Baptist sense. |
| In church polity, the Baptists are congregational; i.e. |
| The earliest Baptist church in the Dominion of Canada was organized at Horton, Nova Scotia, in 1763, by the Rev. Ebenezer Moulton of New England. |
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