A Baptist is a Christian who believes that people should not be baptized until they are old enough to understand the meaning of baptism
Baptist means belonging or relating to Baptists. a Baptist church. a member of a Christian group that believes baptism should only be for people old enough to understand its meaning. Member of a group of Protestant Christians who hold that only adult believers should be baptized and that it must be done by immersion. During the 17th century two groups of Baptists emerged in England: General Baptists, who held that Christ's atonement applied to all persons, and Particular Baptists, who believed it was only for the elect. Baptist origins in the American colonies can be traced to Roger Williams, who established a Baptist church in Providence, R.I., in 1639. Baptist growth in the U.S. was spurred by the Great Awakening in the mid-18th century. The 1814 General Convention showed divisions among U.S. Baptists over slavery; a formal split occurred when the Southern Baptist Convention was organized in 1845 and was confirmed when the Northern (American) Baptist Convention was organized in 1907. African-American Baptist churches provided leadership in the 1960s civil rights movement, notably through the work of Martin Luther King. Baptist belief emphasizes the authority of local congregations in matters of faith and practice; worship is characterized by extemporaneous prayer and hymn-singing as well as by the exposition of scripture in sermons. John the Baptist Saint Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Strauss Johann Baptist
One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion
born March 19, 1873, Brand, Bavaria, Ger. died May 11, 1916, Leipzig German composer and organist. From 1890 to 1893 he studied at Sondershausen and Wiesbaden and taught piano, organ, and theory. By 1901, despite opposition to his traditional methods, he had established himself in Munich as a composer, pianist, and teacher. He became a prolific composer of songs, piano pieces, and especially organ music. His music, combining progressive and conservative elements and often highly chromatic, has always been more popular in Germany than elsewhere
born Oct. 25, 1825, Vienna, Austria died June 3, 1899, Vienna Austrian composer. His father, Johann Strauss the Elder, was a self-taught musician who established a musical dynasty in Vienna. A violinist, he played in a dance orchestra from 1819; when it split in two (1824), he took over the second group, for which he began to write waltzes, galops, polkas, and quadrilles, eventually publishing more than 250 works. As bandmaster of a local regiment, he also wrote marches, including the Radetzsky March. Johann the Younger left his family in 1842 and soon surpassed his father's popularity and productivity, becoming known as the "Waltz King." By inducing his brothers, Josef and Eduard, to take over his conducting duties, he gained more time to compose the symphonic waltzes for which he is best known, including The Blue Danube (1867) and Tales from the Vienna Woods (1868). His operettas include the popular Die Fledermaus (1874) and The Gypsy Baron (1885). Eduard's son Johann, a conductor and composer in Berlin, was the last of the dynasty
(?12 BC-?28 AD) in the New Testament of the Bible, a religious teacher who told people that Jesus Christ was coming, and who baptized Jesus in the River Jordan. (about 12 BC-28 AD) a religious teacher in the New Testament of the Bible who baptized Jesus in the river Jordan. born 1st century AD Jewish prophet revered in Christianity as the forerunner of Jesus. Sources for his life are the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the historian Josephus. His mother, Elizabeth, was perhaps a relative of Mary; his father was the priest Zechariah. As a young man John lived in the Judaean desert, either as a hermit or as part of a Jewish monastic community such as the Essenes. He attracted much public notice AD 28 as a prophet in the Jordan Valley. He preached the imminent wrathful judgment of God and called on his hearers to repent and be baptized. Jesus himself came to be baptized by John and shortly afterward began his own mission. John was imprisoned for criticizing the illegal marriage of Herod Antipas and was executed after Herod's stepdaughter, Salome, demanded his head as a reward for dancing for the king's guests
a member of a Baptist religious group that was established in the Southern US in 1845. Southern Baptists often have fundamentalist Christian beliefs, and they believe that everything in the Bible is exactly true
group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the Dutch theologian Jacobus Arminius (who opposed the doctrine of strict predestination of the Calvinists)
A prophetic figure concerned about righteous behavior and purification, mentioned in the New Testament and in Josephus Because his concerns align so well with those of the Qumran community, some have suggested that he might have spent time in that sect, but there is no hard evidence to prove this
born miraculously as the son of the priest Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth, the cousin of Mother Mary, mother of Jesus A staunch ascetic and denouncer of religious hypocrisy, he baptized Jesus and others at the river Jordan, while announcing that he was only the forerunner of Christ who would baptize with fire Jesus referred to him as the reincarnation of Elijah (Matt 11 13-14) He was executed by Herod Antipas
The son of Zechariah, a priest, and Elisabeth (Luke 1: 5-24, 56-80), John was an ascetic who preached the imminence of judgment and baptized converts in the Jordan River as a symbol of their repentance from sin (Matt 3: 1-12; Mark 1: 2-8; Luke 3: 1-18) The Gospel writers viewed him as an Elijah figure and forerunner of the Messiah (Luke 1: 17; Matt 11: 12-14; John 1: 15, 9-34; 3: 22-36) who baptized Jesus but also recognized his superiority (Matt 3: 13-17; Mark 1: 9-11; Luke 3: 21-22) When imprisoned by Herod Antipas, he inquired whether Jesus were the expected "one who is to come " Jesus' answer was equivocal, but he praised John's work as fulfilling prophecy (Matt 11: 2-19; Luke 7: 24-35) At his step-daughter Salome's request, Herod had John beheaded (Matt 14: 6-12; Mark 6: 17-29) Some of John's disciples later became Christians (John 1: 37; Acts 18: 25)
Patron saint of missionaries He was sent "to prepare the way of the Lord " In Christian art he is represented in a coat of sheepskins, in allusion to his life in the desert; either holding a rude wooden cross, with a pennon bearing the words, Ecce Agnus Dei, or with a book on which a lamb is seated; or holding in his right hand a lamb surrounded by a halo, and bearing a cross on the right foot