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The Baptist Scene in the U.S.A
Greaves, R.L.
Greaves, R.L.
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""T'HROUGHOUT Amerka:'s fifty religion-conscious states are 1 scattered some 2'1,396,000 Baptists who together comprise the largest Protestant denomination in America, a denomination nearly twice the size of the Methodists (1'2,63·2,000), two-and-a-halftimes the size of the Lutherans (8,340,000), and five times larger than the Presbyterians (4,327,000) or the Disciples of Christ (4,047,000).1 Baptists of America are united in their witness supremely to Jesus Christ, as well as to the four cardinal distinctives of the denomination as a whole-the centrality of the Bible in their faith and life, the baptism of believers only, a "gathered" church embodying believers alone, and religious liberty for all men, including the separation of church and state. Beyond this point, however, unity subsides and is replaced by the disconcerting multiplicity of twentynine different bodies not all of which live harmoniously with one another. "
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1963
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