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  Old Regular Baptists of Southeastern Kentucky: A Community of Sacred Song
Old Regular Baptists carry on a tradition of singing that dates from the 16th century.
The singing of the Old Regular Baptists from the Kentucky coal-mining country in the heart of the southern Appalachian Mountains is one of the oldest and deepest veins of the English/Scots/Irish-based American melodic traditions.
Old Regular Baptist music is what it is today because the people continue to believe strongly "In the Good, Old-Fashioned Way," as the title of one of their songs has it.
www.folklife.si.edu /resources/Festival1997/baptists.htm   (1599 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Baptists
The first Baptist church in Boston was established in 1665, and the organization of the first one in Maine, then part of Massachusetts, was completed in 1682.
The Northern Baptists constituted, 17 May, 1907, at Washington, a representative body, called the "Northern Baptist Convention", whose object is "to give expression to the sentiment of its constituency upon matters of denominational importance and of general religious and moral interest." Governor Hughes of New York was elected president of the new organization.
The earliest Baptist church in the Dominion of Canada was organized at Horton, Nova Scotia, in 1763, by the Rev. Ebenezer Moulton of New England.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02278a.htm   (3986 words)

  
 The Church
Baptists believed that scriptural church government formed an essential foundation for the prosperity of the church, for it advanced orthodoxy, evangelism, and discipleship.
Baptists believed, with most Protestants, that the practices of the apostolic churches were normative in all things essential to their worship, government, and discipline.
Baptists did not begin to organize and regularize their missionary efforts in a systematic way until the early 1800s, but their churches ever sought to make disciples.
www.founders.org /library/polity/wills.htm   (9289 words)

  
 A Welsh Succession of Primitive Baptist Faith and Practice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Specifically, Baptists which believed in election and predestination, and also believed that a saving faith is imparted prior to actual new birth in regeneration, I identify as holding to reformed theology.
Baptists which believed in election and predestination, but also believed new birth precedes faith, are identified as Baptists of primitive theology.
The Regular Baptists in the 17th and 18th centuries were quite different from those who are called Regular Baptists in 20th century America.
www.reformedreader.org /history/ivey/welsh.htm   (4957 words)

  
 Baptist History Articles
The Philadelphia Baptist Association was the first Baptist Association in America and it adopted the Calvinistic 1689 Baptist Confession from London with two additions, the laying on of hands and the singing of Psalms, and became the Philadelphia Baptist Confession of Faith in 1742.
Reformed/Sovereign Grace Baptists seek to return to the Puritan heritage of the Regular Baptists of the seventeenth century, a classical period in Baptist development, and recover their theology and ecclesiology.
Protestants and Baptists have a different approach to the Holy Scriptures and while some see it as a very minor difference, Calvinistic Baptists should see it as it is. Protestants, in the Westminster Confession, the Savoy Confession and the Thirty-nine Articles, etc. establish their doctrine, message and method on the whole Bible.
www.pbpress.org /articles.htm   (8167 words)

  
 Religious Movements Homepage: Southern Baptists
Baptists were even persecuted in the New World because of their idea of baptism.
Baptists in the South were embracing slavery because it was the core of their social and economic order.
Baptists of the North were saying that God would not condone treating one race as superior to another while Southerners said that God intended for races to be separate.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/sbaptists.html   (4685 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: BAPTIST CHURCH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The first Baptist church in Texas was organized in Illinois in July 1833 and moved to Texas as a body, called the Pilgrim Church of Predestinarian Regular Baptists, in January 1834.
By 1860 Baptists operated at least a dozen colleges, most of them for women and many of brief duration; by the turn of the twentieth century Baptist colleges were in operation in Waco, Brownwood, Abilene, Jacksboro, Decatur, Rusk, Greenville, Waller, and Belton.
By 1890 fl Baptists totaled 111,138 statewide, and in 1916, 72 percent of the state's fl churchgoers were Baptists.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/ibb1.html   (1116 words)

  
 A Welch Succession of Primitive Baptists
Thus, the heritage of this persuasion of Baptist conviction is first, based upon a belief in baptism by immersion and believers baptism; next, founded by spontaneous reformation and self-baptism; and last, upon the Peligian philosophies of James Arminius as they were embraced by the Waterlander Dutch Mennonites.
Their stated reasons were its poor circulation among the Baptists and a general lack of familiarity with this earlier document among the attendants of the convention.
Such practices were in contrast to the early Baptists of Wales in the Midlands, who claimed their succession of Baptist heritage through the mother church in Olchon Valley located on the Wales/England border, which is part of that area of Britain known as the Midlands.
www.pb.org /pbdocs/chhist5.html   (19925 words)

  
 Old Regular Baptists
The Old Regular Baptist Church of Jesus Christ is one of the subdenominations of the Baptist church, and is concentrated in an area along the Virginia and Kentucky border.
The Old Regulars believe in keeping with the "old ways." Their patriarchal organization follows a set of rules which has been lifted from the New Testament, forming the basis of their institution.
The Old Regulars pride themselves on the belief that their church is most closely representative of the early Chris tian Church of the New Testament.
www.les.appstate.edu /courses/appalachia/religion/oldreg.htm   (373 words)

  
 Sacred Harp and Old Regular Baptists
The lined-out hymns of the Old Regular Baptists are published in songbooks, but the tunes are learned and transmitted orally, and as such, they are easily, and rightly, thought of as folk music.
The hymns of the Old Regular Baptists sound very different, and their social nature seems to be different, too.
The Old Regular Baptists were using these tunes well before they were written down, and most of their melodies come from folk tradition.
www.mustrad.org.uk /reviews/s_harp.htm   (2185 words)

  
 Old Regular Baptist Church
The Old Regular Baptist Church Minutes are obituaries and meeting minutes of the church associations.
Folder 16 (1915): Enterprise Association of Baptists Thirty-Eighth Annual Session 1915 (original), Minutes of the Ninetieth Annual Meeting of the New Salem Association of Regular Baptists (original), Proceedings of the Fifty-Sixth Annual Session of the Union Association of Old Regular Baptists of Jesus
Annual Meeting of the New Salem Association of Regular Baptists (original), Minutes of the Twenty-First Annual Session of The Indian Bottom Association of Old Regular Baptists of Jesus Christ (original), Proceedings of the Fifty-Seventh Annual Session of the Union Association of Old Regular Baptist of Jesus Christ
library.pc.edu /special/oldregbaptist.htm   (2544 words)

  
 The Holy Observer: Barna: Regular Baptists not regular at all
The Holy Observer: Barna: Regular Baptists not regular at all
It appears that a disproportionate number of members of the General Association of Regular Baptists (GARBC) are regular in name only.
While other denominations were well above the national average of 1.3 percent (just over four percent of Free Methodists and nearly three percent of Presbyterians suffer from chronic constipation), the "Regular" Baptists are clearly at the top of the heap.
www.holyobserver.com /detail.php?isu=v01i01&art=garbc   (506 words)

  
 About Regular Baptist Press
Our mission is to glorify God by providing church educational resources that are true to God’s Word and encourage maturity in Christ.
Regular Baptist Press was founded to produce distinctively Baptist Sunday School curriculum based on the entire “counsel of God.” Biblical integrity and doctrinal soundness have remained our hallmarks for over fifty years.
Today a growing number of churches rely on RBP for ministry training, books, and resources that encourage maturity in Christ.
www.rbpstore.org /about/about.cfm   (103 words)

  
 Chapter 13 - Lined-Out Hymnody
This excellent and informative recording, issued in 1997, presents authentic traditional lined-out singing of twelve hymns by around 70 Old Regular Baptists at their church in a coal-mining region of Appalachia, digitally recorded in 1992 and 1993 by Prof.
On the last band, several singers individually describe the meaning of this form of singing in their lives, expressing sentiments well known to tradition shape-note singers.
This work, issued in September 1999, is described by John Bealle as follows: "[It] is a book/CD set consisting of five essays concerning a Primitive Baptist words-only hymnal published in Alabama in 1841 and still in use by congregations across the nation.
www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~mudws/resource/chap13.html   (1553 words)

  
 Adherents.com
"...the fundamentalist General Association of Regular Baptists, which split away from the Northern Baptists in protest at the denomination's policies, numbered only 22,000 members by 1936, compared with approximately 1.3 million members in the larger denomination.
"The General Association of Regular baptists had grown to about 1,000 churches by 1979, with aggregate membership of approximately 150,000.
Nashville has one of the highest number of churches per capita of any city in the U.S., and is headquarters to a great number of national church offices, including Southern Baptist Convention, United Methodist Church, and AME.
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_569.html   (3257 words)

  
 Blank Page 2
Entered URL for the headquarters church of the Southwide Baptist Fellowship.
Indian Bottom Association of Old Regular Baptist Churches.
Completed update of Baptist churches page, and created a separate page for Baptist churches and bodies outside North America.
www.kentaurus.com /domine/whatsnew.htm   (964 words)

  
 Otter Creek Association of Regular Baptists, Mead County, Kentucky
Otter Creek Association of Regular Baptists, Mead County, Kentucky
He was identified with "Otter Creek Association of Regular Baptists" organized at the Otter Creek meetinghouse, October 25, 1839.
The original minute book of the Otter Creek Baptist Church was in his possession.
www.kentuckygenealogy.org /meade/otter_creek.htm   (444 words)

  
 Shape Note Bibliography
Cooper, Mary I. The Career of Rev. Lyman Beecher in Cincinnati.
In notes to Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky.
Sung by members of the Indian Bottom Association, Old Regular Baptists, at Defeated Creek Church, Linefork, Kentucky, August 20, 1992, and June 10, 1993.
fasola.org /bibliography/cbib.html   (1262 words)

  
 Folkways
The oldest English-language religious music in oral tradition in North America, the lined-out, congregational hymnody of the Old Regular Baptists is heard in the heart of the coal-mining country of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
In this rare, beautiful, and heartfelt music lie the roots of the high, lonesome mountain sound of elaborate melodic turns and graces.
Produced in collaboration with the Indian Bottom Association of Old Regular Baptists, this is the second of two Smithsonian Folkways albums devoted to their music; the first was SFW CD 40106.
www.folkways.si.edu /search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2967   (268 words)

  
 Historical Committee & Archives of the Mennonite Church
But we know that at the time of his death in 1895 he was a Baptist.
Evidently his little group had left him, and being theologically minded, he had joined the growing Baptist denomination.
The reason John states as to why John the Baptist baptized in the Jordan near Aenon [Jn.
www.mcusa-archives.org /MHB/Shemzook.html   (3861 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Ready, Set, Grow/a Faith and Practice Primer for Regular Baptists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Amazon.ca: Books: Ready, Set, Grow/a Faith and Practice Primer for Regular Baptists
Ready, Set, Grow/a Faith and Practice Primer for Regular Baptists
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www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0872271382   (102 words)

  
 Regular Baptist Press - General Association of Regular Baptists publishing house, located in Illinois - Praize
Regular Baptist Press - General Association of Regular Baptists publishing house, located in Illinois - Praize
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General Association of Regular Baptists publishing house, located in Illinois
www.praize.com /engine/info/44499.html   (203 words)

  
 Appalachian Journal - Back Issues
Also "Land of the Purple People Eaters" by Marie B. Mellinger; "An Introduction to the Guineas: West Virginia's Melungeons" by Avery F. Gaskins; "Indications of Regular Sound Shifting in an Appalachian Dialect" by Robert Callary.
(Summer 1987) CONTENTS: 'Brethren, We Have Met Again': The Old Regular Baptists and 'Association Time'" by Howard Dorgan; 'God'll Just Bless You All Over the Place,: Hymnody in a Blue Ridge Mountain Independent Baptist Church" by Jeff Todd Titon.
(Summer 1994) CONTENTS: "The Blue Ridge Parkway and Myths of the Pioneer" by Phil Noblitt; "Increasing Dependency and the Touristization Rag" by Paul Salstrom and Steve Hollenhorst; "Democracy and Religion: Dissension among the Primitive Baptists" by David Reynolds; an interview with Donald Harington by Edwin T. Arnold.
www.appjournal.appstate.edu /Backiss.html   (8464 words)

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