What is the difference between a Baptist and an Anabaptist?

[TG123]

I know that Mennonites are Anabaptists and they stick to the Bible very closely as do Baptists. Are there any theological differences between Baptists and Anabaptists like the Mennonites and Hutterites? Is their worship similar?

Are Baptists (as a majority) as involved in social justice and peacemaking as Mennonites (as a majority) are?

Are Baptists also pacifists?

What does the word 'Anabaptist' mean?

I'm just curious, just some questions.



Christus Regnat!
- Tom

 

[Athanasian Creed]

...What does the word 'Anabaptist' mean?...

Anabaptist = Rebaptiser. A person who would have undergone infant baptism (or even later in life by sprinkling) would have been required to undergo 'believers baptism' and immersed.

Interesting to note, Anabaptists were despised and persecuted by both the Roman Catholics and by certain Protestant reformers such as John Calvin, even to the point of death.


Ray

 

[handmaiden97]

I will second that response about anabaptist =rebaptizer.....the name was orriginally meant as an insult to those beleivers who durirn gthe reformation counted their infant baptism as nothing and were rebaptized by imersion.

....are baptists pacificts....not the ones I know!

 

[MrJim]

I know that Mennonites are Anabaptists and they stick to the Bible very closely as do Baptists. Are there any theological differences between Baptists and Anabaptists like the Mennonites and Hutterites? Is their worship similar?

Are Baptists (as a majority) as involved in social justice and peacemaking as Mennonites (as a majority) are?

Are Baptists also pacifists?

What does the word 'Anabaptist' mean?

I'm just curious, just some questions.



Christus Regnat!
- Tom

Baptists are not pacifists--and frankly historical anabaptists are not pacifists either--they are nonresistant (and there is a difference).

When you mention "social justice" MennoniteUSA jumps to mind. Social justice/peacemaking screams the liberal end of the mennonite church which spends more time on these things and less time on the evangel. Digging wells in Africa is great, but when the Living Water is not offered then ultimately it is for naught. The liberal side of the Mennonite church is fraught with the same issues as liberal sides of other denominations-especially when it comes to denying that the scriptures are the Word of God (bible just "contains" it ya know). Historically they are known as "People of the Book" but ya couldn't tell it from what's coming out of liberal mennonite universities.

Worship is about the same until you get into the more conservative anabaptist groups. If you are interested in a more historical anabaptist perspective check these folks out:

http://mennodiscuss.com/

If the MennoniteUSA/liberal mennonites are more your cup of tea then enjoy-they do everything the others do. (I was in one once and thought the drums and guitars were too loud, but that's just me.) Picture a pacifist liberal baptist church and you'd pretty much have it except they probably still do feet washing at communion.

 

[MadFingerPainter]

there is also a thread at the top of the forum that talks about this...
http://www.christianforums.com/t1479209-what-does-the-baptist-anabaptist-believe.html

 

[Schroeder]

what about the Quakers. they dont have any ordances or sacraments, as in no communion or water baptism ect. dont know how we got into this group but i havent really looked into it. and man were we ever hated by the church of england and others in our begginings.

 

[Daniels]

What is the difference between Baptist and Lutherans?

 

[arunma]

What is the difference between Baptist and Lutherans?

Baptists and Lutherans both believe in such doctrines as sola fide and sola gracia. One major difference is that Lutherans believe in infant baptism. Lutherans also have sacramental theology. Whereas Baptists view the eucharist and baptism as ordinances, the Lutherans refer to them as sacraments. They also tend to believe in consubstantiation; that is to say, they believe that the true body and blood of Christ are present under the communion elements.

Although Lutheran churches differ, I believe that their worship services tend to be more liturgical than Baptist services.

 

[Athanasian Creed]

...They (Lutherans) also tend to believe in consubstantiation; that is to say, they believe that the true body and blood of Christ are present under the communion elements...

They refer to it as 'Real Presence' (at least the Lutheran minister i spoke to about it did)



Ray

 

[MrJim]

But Lutherans are cool, right? I mean a lot of you calvinists are sporting Luther avatars...unless maybe he wasn't totally OK?