Primitive Baptists

Primitive Baptist churches
ClassificationPrimitive Baptists
OrientationConservative
TheologyCalvinistic Baptist[1]
PolityCongregational
RegionUnited States, mainly in the southern states
Origin19th century
SeparationsMissionary 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]

  1. ^ a b Larsen, Timothy; Ledger-Lomas, Michael (28 April 2017). The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III: The Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-19-150667-3.
  2. ^ Wyatt-Brown, Bertram (2001) The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s - 1880s. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4912-5 p.109
  3. ^ a b Crowley 2006, p. 158.
  4. ^ Mead, Frank S; Hill, Samuel S; Atwood, Craig D (2005). Handbook of Denominations in the United States (twelfth ed.). Nashville: Abingdon Press. pp. 207–8. ISBN 0-687-05784-1.