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词条 Baptist successionism
释义

  1. Articulation of the theory

  2. Modern rejection of the theory

  3. See also

  4. References

      Citations    Works cited  
{{short description|Theory of continuous nonconformist Christian Church}}

Baptist successionism (or Baptist perpetuity) is one of several theories on the origin and continuation of Baptist churches. The theory postulates an unbroken lineage of churches (since the days of John the Baptist, who baptized Christ) which have held beliefs similar to those of current Baptists. Groups often included in this lineage include the Montanists, Paulicians, Cathari, Waldenses, Albigenses, and Anabaptists.{{sfn|Patterson|1969|p= 9}}

Articulation of the theory

The perpetuity view is often identified with The Trail of Blood, a pamphlet by James Milton Carroll published in 1931.{{sfn|McBeth|1987|pp=59–60}} Other Baptist writers who held the perpetuity view are John T. Christian, Thomas Crosby, G. H. Orchard, J. M. Cramp, William Cathcart, Adam Taylor and D. B. Ray.{{sfnm |1a1=McBeth |1y=1987 |1pp=59–60 |2a1=Torbet |2y=1975 |2p=18}}

This view was once commonly held among Baptists.{{sfn|Torbet|1975|p=18}} Since the end of the 19th century, however, the theory has increasingly come under attack and today has been largely discredited.{{sfnm |1a1=Brackney |1y=2004 |2a1=McGoldrick |2y=2000}}{{page needed|date=February 2013}} Nonetheless, the view continued to be the prevailing view among Baptists of the Southern United States into the latter 20th century.{{sfn|Patterson|1969|p=6}} It is now identified primarily with Landmarkism, though not exclusively so.{{sfnm |1a1=McBeth |1y=1987 |1p=58 |2a1=Patterson |2y=1969 |2p=6}} The concept finds its parallels in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican doctrine of apostolic succession and stands in contrast to the restorationist views of Latter Day Saints and the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.{{sfn|Torbet|1975|p=19}}

Modern rejection of the theory

Since the end of the 19th century the trend in academic Baptist historiography has been away from the successionist viewpoint to the view that modern day Baptists are an outgrowth of 17th-century English Separatism.{{sfn|Cross|1990|p=174}} This shift precipitated a controversy among Southern Baptists which occasioned the forced resignation of William H. Whitsitt, a professor at Southern Baptist Seminary, in 1898 from the seminary for advocating the new view, though his views continued to be taught in the seminary after his departure.{{sfn|McBeth|1987|pp=457–458}}

See also

  • {{section link|Anabaptism#Medieval forerunners}}
  • Landmarkism
  • Restorationism
  • {{section link|Christadelphians#Other historical groups and individuals with some shared doctrines}}
  • {{section link|Gospel Hall Assemblies#History}}
  • The Pilgrim Church by Edmund Hamer Broadbent

References

Citations

Works cited

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{{cite book


|last=Brackney
|first=William H.
|author-link = William H. Brackney
|year=2004
|title = A Genetic History of Baptist Thought: With Special Reference to Baptists in Britain and North America
|location=Macon, Georgia
|publisher=Mercer University Press
|isbn=978-0-86554-913-5
|ref = harv
}}

{{cite book


|last=Cross
|first=I. K.
|year=1990
|title=The Battle For Baptist History
|location=Columbus, Georgia
|publisher=Brentwood Christian Press
|isbn=978-0-89211-337-8
|ref = harv
}}

{{cite book


|last=McBeth
|first=H. Leon
|year=1987
|title = The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness
|location=Nashville, Tennessee
|publisher=Broadman Press
|isbn=978-0-8054-6569-3
|ref = harv
}}

{{cite book


|last=McGoldrick
|first=James Edward
|year=2000
|title = Baptist Successionism: A Crucial Question in Baptist History
|location=Lanham, Maryland
|publisher=Scarecrow Press
|isbn=978-0-8108-3681-5
|ref = harv
}}

{{cite book


|last=Patterson
|first=W. Morgan
|year=1969
|title = Baptist Successionism: A Critical View
|location=Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
|publisher=Judson Press
|isbn=978-0-8170-0420-0
|ref = harv
}}

{{cite book


|last=Torbet
|first=Robert G.
|year=1975
|title=A History of the Baptists
|edition=3rd
|location=Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
|publisher=Judson Press
|isbn=978-0-8170-0074-5
|ref = harv
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