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Baptistism?

Hmmm, if Presbyterians are part of Presbyterianism, and Catholics part of Catholicism, and so on, what are Baptists a part of?

Update: Baptistdom!

This was written by brownpau. Posted on Monday, August 30, 2004, at 2:14 pm. Filed under faith, language. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

6 Comments

  1. Rich Clark wrote:

    Baptism?

    Monday, August 30, 2004 at 3:17 pm | Permalink
  2. Paulo wrote:

    See, “baptism” is already taken as a noun for the ordinance/sacrament/act of baptizing, so to use it for the Baptist body of believers would be confusing.

    Monday, August 30, 2004 at 3:21 pm | Permalink
  3. The Dane wrote:

    I wasn’t sure, so I asked some of the people outside my office picketing fun and they confirmed that they are indeed a part of the long and great tradition of baptizism.

    Monday, August 30, 2004 at 4:30 pm | Permalink
  4. Sparticus wrote:

    the-one-sound-denomination-ism

    Monday, August 30, 2004 at 5:54 pm | Permalink
  5. TAG wrote:

    Aren’t they from the lineage of John the Baptist? So they could be Johns or Johnisms.

    Monday, August 30, 2004 at 10:30 pm | Permalink
  6. Bobber wrote:

    They are part of immersionism.

    Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at 2:02 pm | Permalink