Baptism-minded

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Information sign at the church of the Baptist Congregation in Amsterdam

The term baptism-minded people are used to describe all free church movements for which the baptism of believers - also called adult baptism - is the rule. They reject the baptism of underage children ( infant baptism ) and instead usually bless children .

history

There was already an Anabaptist movement during the Reformation , from which the Hutterites and Mennonites emerged . From around the middle of the 16th century, the Dutch Anabaptists used the term Doopsgezinde . ( NDL. For Taufgesinnte) From the Netherlands, the term spread in the 17th century under the Baptist churches in German-speaking countries, where ultimately prevailed but the name Mennonites. In some cases, both terms were used synonymously, as in the 1884 Antje Brons history book About the origin, development and fate of the baptismal or Mennonites . The Swiss Anabaptists took the name in 1810Protestant, defenseless baptismal congregations . Today this is the conference of the Mennonites of Switzerland .

The beginnings of the Baptists , another Baptism- minded church community, go back to 1609. Congregational religious refugees from England founded the first Baptist church in Amsterdam that year and returned to Great Britain in 1611. Numerous communities were founded there in several phases. The Baptist movement, which is now one of the major Protestant denominational families, came back to Europe via the United States in the first half of the 19th century. Many Baptist congregations initially called themselves Evangelical Baptist Churches .

Of the free churches that emerged in the 19th century, the Adventists and smaller free churches such as Evangelical Anabaptist Congregations (ETG, also Evangelical Baptist Congregations ), the Free Church Federation of the Congregation of God and the Church of the Nazarene are assigned to the Baptized churches. Also in the 19th century the Free Evangelical Congregations came into being , which also do not practice infant baptism. If, however, a person who was already baptized as a child in another church has believed in Jesus Christ and subsequently regards his child baptism as valid, he can also be accepted into the congregation without receiving the baptism of believers . It is similar with many brother communities .

In some of the Mennonite congregations today, in the event of a change of denomination, baptism of consent is waived, be it that it is completely disregarded, or that this is placed in the decision of the person being baptized.

The Pentecostal congregations that arose in the 20th century , such as the congregations of the Mülheimer Verband , the Bund Freikirchlicher Pentecostal congregations or the Congregation of God Germany , also practice baptism of faith.

The term “baptismal” as a collective term can currently be found, for example, in the name of the Federation of Baptist Churches , which unites congregations of Mennonite and Baptist tradition.

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  1. ^ Mennonite Lexicon , Volume IV, 1967.
  2. See for example the explanations "How to become a parish member" of the EFG (Brethren Parish) Moers  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , read on May 4, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / efg-moers-mitte.homepagenow.de  
  3. Who are the Mennonites or Baptists? (No longer available online.) Mennonite Congregation North, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 29, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.mennoniten-norden.de