Episcopal Baptists?
History is full of surprises. Sometimes, history is downright stranger than fiction. Church history, including Baptist history, is no exception to this principle. When the Baptist movement, as we know it today, emerged in the seventeenth century, early Baptists had to settle their views on several important issues. For those with a cursory knowledge of Baptist life and history, you can probably guess some of the significant questions: Calvinism vs. Arminianism and Open vs. Closed Communion, for example. Yet, some early Baptist disagreements may be a shock. In my experience, many present-day Baptists are baffled when they learn that the...
