Catechisms For Baptists

[JM]

Our brothers and sisters in the Reformed Churches have had the use of Catechisms since the Reformation and after planning our family devotion time at home, I found that many of the suggested devotional structures used Catechisms. I did a searching and found a great resource for Baptists of a Reformed slant. http://www.reformedreader.org/ccc/bcat.htm

The site is very useful.

God bless,
SP

PS: Does anyone know of Baptist Catechism books in 'print?'

 

[Knight]

There is also the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689.

Though I'm not sure if this is what you are refering to.

 

[Irishcat922]

Wow! Bunyan 288 Questions impressive.
Question: Was Bunyan a real baptist?

 

[JM]

Wow! Bunyan 288 Questions impressive.
Question: Was Bunyan a real baptist?

That's a good question, I know he was Reformed but not sure if Reformed Baptist. Good question.

 

[JM]

There is also the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689.

Though I'm not sure if this is what you are refering to.

I make good use of the Confession, on the link above you'll find Catechism (mostly based on the Westminster) for Baptists.

 

[Irishcat922]

My limited knowledge of Bunyan, is that the Church in which he was baptized, that he was later ordained as a Deacon, was congregational, they accepted paedo-baptists into membership, and later they accepted paedo-baptism as an accepted practice. From what I have read Bunyan veiwed baptism as an important sacrament of the Church, but he did not seem to be so concerned about the mode, or to whom it was administered, so long as they were Christians or the children of Christians.

 

[Knight]

Bunyan was a Puritan was he not?

 

[JM]

Bunyan was a Puritan was he not?

I thought a Puritan was someone that stayed in the Anglican Church to clense and purify it....

 

[JM]

Double post.

 

[Cajun Huguenot]

I thought a Puritan was someone that stayed in the Anglican Church to clense and purify it....

The Puritans were a diverse group. Some were Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Anglicans and Baptists.

Kenith

 

[JM]

The Puritans were a diverse group. Some were Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Anglicans and Baptists.

Kenith

Who would you consider a modern Puritan? (Asked to anyone.)

 

[HiredGoon]

Question: Was Bunyan a real baptist?

According to "The Devoted Life: an Invitation to the Puritan Classics" Bunyan preached at Bedford Baptist Church in the 1650s and was its pastor from 1672.

"First he was a Puritan to his fingertips. Sociologically, to be sure, he was a Puritan outsider. He was an artisan, a tinker, what in my youth was called a "blue-collar" worker to mark him off from "white-collar" people in the professions, and in Bunyan's day was called a "mechanick" for the same purpose. The core of the Puritan constituency was a brotherhood of university-educated preachers who favored some form of paedobaptist national church, and who themselves had staus in the landowning segment of society. Bunyan, the self-educated preacher from the little Baptist church in Bedford, was something else...."

 

[HiredGoon]

Who would you consider a modern Puritan? (Asked to anyone.)

In "The Devoted Life: an Invitation to the Puritan Classics" the eds came up with seven basic characteristics to describe the Puritan movement of the 17th-18th century, wether Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Sepratist, or Baptist.

• Many understand Puritanism as a movement of spirituality.
• Puritanism, at its heart, lays stress on experiencing communion with God.
• Puritans were united in their dependence upon the Bible as their supreme source of spiritual sustenance and guide for the reformation of life.
• The Puritans were predominantly Augustinian in their emphasis upon human sinfulness and divine grace.
• The Puritans placed great emphasis upon the work of the Holy Spirit in the believer's life.
• The Puritans were deeply troubled with sacramental forms of Catholic spirituality fostered within the Anglican Church.
• Puritanism can also be understood as a revival movement.

Two modern church leaders I would consider Puritan (or neo-puritan) as they basically fit the above characteristics are Presbyterian R.C. Sproul and Baptist John Piper.

 

[Imblessed]

In "The Devoted Life: an Invitation to the Puritan Classics" the eds came up with seven basic characteristics to describe the Puritan movement of the 17th-18th century, wether Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Sepratist, or Baptist.

• Many understand Puritanism as a movement of spirituality.
• Puritanism, at its heart, lays stress on experiencing communion with God.
• Puritans were united in their dependence upon the Bible as their supreme source of spiritual sustenance and guide for the reformation of life.
• The Puritans were predominantly Augustinian in their emphasis upon human sinfulness and divine grace.
• The Puritans placed great emphasis upon the work of the Holy Spirit in the believer's life.
• The Puritans were deeply troubled with sacramental forms of Catholic spirituality fostered within the Anglican Church.
• Puritanism can also be understood as a revival movement.

Two modern church leaders I would consider Puritan (or neo-puritan) as they basically fit the above characteristics are Presbyterian R.C. Sproul and Baptist John Piper.

This also sounds very Quaker to me. I was raised Quaker, and all of those seem to fit the ideals of the Quakers.

Although....they did also reject baptism and communion, but did not "condemn" others for practicing it....so I guess that would put them outside the "puritan" camp??

 

[Pilgrim and stranger]

Our brothers and sisters in the Reformed Churches have had the use of Catechisms since the Reformation and after planning our family devotion time at home, I found that many of the suggested devotional structures used Catechisms. I did a searching and found a great resource for Baptists of a Reformed slant. http://www.reformedreader.org/ccc/bcat.htm

The site is very useful.

God bless,
SP

PS: Does anyone know of Baptist Catechism books in 'print?'

Hello brother,

I believe that the use of Catechisms and doctrinal creeds is greatly unbiblical if it is being used to say to a christian, you cannot join our church if you do not agree to these beliefs. Now I use Catechisms etc to help me understand scripture and formulate doctrines however on issues of reception into fellowship we should follow Acts 2:

41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

 

[JM]

I find it a good source of instruction for my children...