# Baptists · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow Source: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/atlas/library/canon/baptists/ · The Congregation of Tomorrow · the Atlas · language: en The same words a person sees on this page, nothing more and nothing hidden. Our own words are free to use under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), naming the Congregation of Tomorrow. Words of others keep their own terms. Every page of the site, listed: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/ai/pages.json · the whole site in one file: https://congregationoftomorrow.org/llms-full.txt ← The Canon: all 125 The Canon · No. 074 Baptists The Baptist tradition 1609 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · US, Nigeria, DR Congo, India, Brazil, Myanmar VI. REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN — 1500 – 1800 ### How many ### Who began it ### What it is for ### What it worships ### What it holds ### What it does ### After death ### Its texts ### Its branches ### Of note ### Its timeline - 1609 CE Smyth's congregation in Amsterdam. - 1612 CE Helwys publishes A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity, arguing for universal religious liberty, and is imprisoned; he dies in Newgate. - 1638–39 CE Roger Williams founds Providence and the first Baptist church in America, on the principle of complete separation of church and state. - 1707, 1814 CE Philadelphia Association; the Triennial Convention. - 1792 CE William Carey launches the modern Protestant missionary movement from a Baptist base. - 1845 CE The Southern Baptist Convention splits from northern Baptists over slavery, in defence of slaveholding missionaries. It formally repented of this in 1995. - 1773–present The Black Baptist church becomes the central institution of African American life; the National Baptist Convention forms in 1895. - 1955–68 CE Martin Luther King Jr, a Baptist minister, leads the civil rights movement out of the Black church. - 1979–2000 CE The conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention. - 2019–present Investigations reveal widespread sexual abuse and its concealment across Southern Baptist churches; a 2022 independent report confirms it. ### Sources Not yet checked against named sources. This entry is the house's reading; until it is checked, treat each claim as unverified. Correct it, with a source. The Atlas The Door