Southern Baptist

Evangelical American church

A Southern Baptist is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States.

The church broke from northern Baptists in 1845 over slavery and remains concentrated in the American South.

Southern Baptists emphasize biblical authority, adult baptism by immersion, and personal conversion: She was raised Southern Baptist but left the church in college.

Opposites
denominational/theological contrast

Southern BaptistRoman Catholic

Christian denomination led from Vatican

Catholic · Eastern Orthodox · high church · Anglo-Catholic · atheist

religious vs. secular worldview

Southern Baptistatheist

One denying gods exist

secular humanist · agnostic · freethinker · nonbeliever · irreligious

Family

southern, Baptist, south, baptism, baptize, baptized, baptizing, baptismal, southerly

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