People
Miscellaneous
Baptist Origins
17th Century
18th Century
100

This person was the leader of a Separatist congregation that eventually became the first Baptist church

Who is John Smyth?

100

This is the founder of the New Connexion of General Baptists

Who is Dan Taylor?

100

This is the practice that often indicates that a congregation has become Baptist

What is believers baptism?

100

This is a practice that Baptists begin to do in the 1640s

What is baptism by immersion?

100

This is the name of the widespread revival that swept across the American colonies

What is the First Great Awakening?

200

This English king broke from the Catholic Church to establish the Church of England

Who is Henry VIII?

200

These Baptists see Jesus's salvation as available to all people and had a threefold sense of ministry

Who are the General Baptists?

200

This is the year that the first Baptist church was established

What is 1609?

200

This act of parliament muted much of the hostility toward English dissenters (including Baptists)

What is the Act of Toleration (1689)?

200

This is the oldest Baptist association in America

What is the Philadelphia Association?

300

This person refused to pay the fine for an illegal worship service in Massachusetts and was whipped 

Who is Obadiah Holmes?

300

This British colony in New England was founded with a commitment to religious liberty from its beginning

What is Rhode Island?

300

This was a Protestant Reformer who was based in Zurich and influential on the early Anabaptists

Who is Ulrich Zwingli?

300

This is the name of the 12-15 year period in England when there was no monarch

What is the (English) Protectorate?

300

This is one of the educational institutions founded by Baptists in the 18th century

What is Bristol Baptist College or Brown University?

400

This is the founder of the town of Newport, RI and a church that eventually became Baptist

Who is John Clarke?

400

This is the location and founding date for the first Baptist church in America

What are Providence and 1638?

400

These are Christians who left the Church of England altogether, often displayed by refusing to baptize their children in an Anglican church

Who are Separatists?

400

This early Baptist statement was written and distributed by five Particular Baptist churches in 1644

What is the First London Confession of Faith?

400

These are Christians who were converted through revivalism and sought changes within existing denominations

Who are New Lights?

500

This Baptist was the agent for the Grievance Committee of the Warren Association, advocating for religious liberty for New England Baptists

Who is Isaac Backus?

500

These Baptists emphasized educated ministers, order in worship and church life, and sermons that presented a reasoned argument

Who are Regular Baptists?

500

This is the location of the first Baptist church in England

What is Spitalfields?

500

This term names a set of laws passed by Parliament re-establishing the Church of England as the state church

What is the Clarendon Code?

500

This is the label used for those Christians who supported the use of creeds and confessions of faith alongside the Bible

Who are "subscribers"?

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