Babtists

[Pafra & Scott Catledge]

----- Original Message -----
From: M. Lynne Murphy <M_Lynne_Murphy at BAYLOR.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 11:53 PM
Subject: Babtists


> I was refering to American Baptist Convention versus Southern Baptist
> Convention, but we might phrase it in terms of southern Baptists and
> northern Baptists--would southern Baptists call northern Baptists
"Babtist"?
    Why not?  It's a matter of dialect--not creed.

> (And, of course, there are other types of Baptists too, Missionary
Baptist,
> National Baptist--both of which around here seem to be predominantly
> African-American churches.)

A few decades back, I was doing a paper on Baptists and identified
51 or so Baptist groups in the US--not counting immigrant groups.
They range from the Arminian Baptists and the Seventh-Day Baptists
to the Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists.   Missionary
Baptists are also several European-American churches also; there is
at least one European-American National Baptist group (I have to say
"group" because most, if not almost all, Baptist groups, as a point of
religious conviction, shun use of the word "church" for anything except
a local body of baptized believers.  They use the terms "fellowship,"
"convention," "association," and others of that ilk.
>
> Lynne
> ----------
> >From: Pafra & Scott Catledge <scplc at GS.VERIO.NET>
> >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >Subject: Re: mormons
> >Date: Sat, Nov 6, 1999, 8:10 PM
> >
>
> >The difference between American Baptists and Southern Baptists would
depend
> >upon whether your reference was to the American Baptist Association
(found
> >throughout the South) or the American Baptist Convention (found up north
> >primarily and in large southern cities who have experienced northern
> >immigration--used to be the Northern Baptist Convention).
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Pafra & Scott Catledge <scplc at GS.VERIO.NET>
> >To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 6:47 PM
> >Subject: Re: mormons
> >
> >
> >> I attended Baptist churches all over Florida and Mississippi.  My
father,
> >a
> >> Baptist minister, always said {baptist}; everyone else said {babtist}.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Bethany K. Dumas <dumasb at UTK.EDU>
> >> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 1:11 PM
> >> Subject: Re: mormons
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, M. Lynne Murphy wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >How about that pronunciation 'Babtist'?
> >> >
> >> > I never heard anything else growing up in se texas.
> >> >
> >> > Bethany