Primitive Baptist churches | |
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Classification | Primitive Baptists |
Orientation | Conservative |
Theology | Calvinistic Baptist[1] |
Polity | Congregational |
Region | United States, mainly in the southern states |
Origin | 19th century |
Separations | Missionary Baptists |
Primitive Baptists – also known as Regular Baptists, Old School Baptists, Foot Washing Baptists, or, derisively, Hard Shell Baptists[2] – are conservative Baptists adhering to a degree of Calvinist beliefs who coalesced out of the controversy among Baptists in the early 19th century over the appropriateness of mission boards, tract societies, and temperance societies.[3][4] Primitive Baptists are a subset of the Calvinistic Baptist tradition.[1] The adjective "primitive" in the name is used in the sense of "original".[3]