Featured Particular Baptists

Particular Baptist is terminology that at least goes back to the English Baptists who were divided into Particular Baptists -- believed in a "particular" or limited atonement -- and General Baptists -- who believed in a general atonement. This theology would be represented by the First London Confession, Second London Confession, Philadelphia Baptist Confession, et al. In America the Particular Baptists gradually changed their modifier to Regular Baptist (and many dropped the Particular Atonement view as well). I am not aware of any group of Baptists (such as an Association, Fellowship or Convention) that calls themselves Particular Baptist, but some churches and individuals identify themselves that way to emphasize their view of the atonement (and probably avoid the terminology "Calvinist," which many Baptists don't like). I'm guessing on Historic Fundamental Baptist that he may be emphasizing the emphases of the original fundamental Baptists in the early 20th century on the "Fundamentals" before being fractured by all sorts of secondary issues. [But it would be better if he explains what he means.]

 

Thanks, Salty. I see from that page their is some type of fellowship bearing the name particular.
Particularbaptist.com - Australia's Particular & Reformed Baptist Home Fellowship Network

 

Particular Baptist Church Directory

 

Pastor Louis Sawyer was a speaker at the Southern Baptist Convention in 1907!

 

I wasn't saying anything about alcoholic beverages, but I doubt many early 20th century fundamentalists were all that open to alcohol as a beverage. But that is just my perception. I have not made any study of it.

 

Association of Historic Baptists

 

Think that it was in more armianin circles such as Holiness pentacostalists and Nazarenes where full alcohol shunning was observed/practiced!

 

Huh?

Here's what an early leader of your own denomination (North American Baptist Conference) was preaching in 1913:

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1913) by Walter Rauschenbusch, p. 376

"the Church can act as a conservative influence....For instance, the custom which barred alcoholic drinks from respectable and educated homes is now being undermined...,and the Church should undertake a new temperance crusade with all the resources of advanced physiological and sociological science. The head of an important Eastern institution a few years ago proposed to introduce beer in the social gatherings of students in order to make them more sociable. Such an innovation would...create the habit of moderate drinking in many young men"

 

Most Baptist that I have met would be in the vein though of either option is viable, and still think that those groups I mentioned would be much more strictly no alcolhol at all allowed!

 

Among early 20th century fundamentalists?

 

Thought hat most of them saw Budwiser/Miller as Devils brew?

 

OK. Thanks. I think in church history you probably won't find a predominance of the teetotalism we are used to until you reach the temperance movement.