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dc.contributor.authorHolmes, Stephen R.
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-27T11:30:09Z
dc.date.available2021-08-27T11:30:09Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier274776873
dc.identifier820ec6f7-eb02-47dc-86ec-f34016ad6b9e
dc.identifier85113556728
dc.identifier.citationHolmes , S R 2021 , ' When did John Smyth embrace 'Arminianism' and was the first Baptist congregation 'Particular'? ' , Baptist Quarterly , vol. 52 , no. 4 , pp. 146-157 . https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576X.2021.1947651en
dc.identifier.issn0005-576X
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-4222-8209/work/99115955
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/23850
dc.description.abstractUnsurprisingly given his schooling in Elizabethan Puritanism, John Smyth’s early works show that he held to standard Calvinistic positions on election, reprobation, and original sin. By 1610 he had clearly repudiated these positions. This essay explores when and why he changed his mind. Textual evidence shows that he was still holding Calvinistic convictions when he baptised himself and the others, and then formed the first Baptist church in (probably) 1609. The reason for his repudiation of Calvinism some months after that is less certain, but I argue that it was probably down to an engagement with the Waterlander Mennonites that came after the baptisms. I therefore argue that, contrary to common report, the first Baptist congregation was ‘Particular’, not ‘General’, although it quickly changed, and that the long-standing question of whether the Mennonites had a significant effect on early Baptist development can be answered in the affirmative.
dc.format.extent12
dc.format.extent1162524
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofBaptist Quarterlyen
dc.subjectJohn Smythen
dc.subjectThomas Helwysen
dc.subjectBaptist beginningsen
dc.subjectGeneral Baptistsen
dc.subjectWaterlander Mennonitesen
dc.subjectBL Religionen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccBLen
dc.titleWhen did John Smyth embrace 'Arminianism' and was the first Baptist congregation 'Particular'?en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Divinityen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/0005576X.2021.1947651
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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