Baptist Tradition

The Creed Archive Dialogues · Sep 5, 2026 · 33m

Imagine a world where even the water you touch could get you arrested. In seventeenth-century England, one act—baptism by immersion—became a quiet rebellion that would echo across continents and centuries.This is the unlikely story of how a small group of dissenters sparked a global movement. In the early sixteen hundreds, England and the Low Countries simmered with religious tension. The official Church of England demanded conformity, but dissenters—called Separatists—were searching for something purer, closer to their reading of the New Testament. Out of this atmosphere, a new identity…