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perpetuity</b>) is one of several theories on the <a href="/wiki/Baptists#Origins" title="Baptists">origin and continuation of Baptist churches</a>. The theory postulates an unbroken lineage of churches (since the days of <a href="/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist">John the Baptist</a>, who baptized <a href="/wiki/Jesus_in_Christianity" title="Jesus in Christianity">Christ</a>) which have held beliefs similar to those of current <a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptists</a>. Groups often included in this lineage include the <a href="/wiki/Montanists" class="mw-redirect" title="Montanists">Montanists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paulicianism" title="Paulicianism">Paulicians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cathari" class="mw-redirect" title="Cathari">Cathari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Waldenses" class="mw-redirect" title="Waldenses">Waldenses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Albigenses" class="mw-redirect" title="Albigenses">Albigenses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lollardy" title="Lollardy">Lollards</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Anabaptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anabaptist">Anabaptists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPatterson19699_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson19699-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However most scholars agree that the Baptists originated within 17th-century puritanism, meaning it is not accepted by scholars as factual. <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Theory">Theory</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Theory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Trail_of_Blood.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/The_Trail_of_Blood.jpg/483px-The_Trail_of_Blood.jpg" decoding="async" width="483" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/The_Trail_of_Blood.jpg/725px-The_Trail_of_Blood.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/The_Trail_of_Blood.jpg/966px-The_Trail_of_Blood.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4656" data-file-height="1500" /></a><figcaption>Diagram representing <i><a href="/wiki/The_Trail_of_Blood" title="The Trail of Blood">The Trail of Blood</a></i> as presented by <a href="/wiki/James_Milton_Carroll" title="James Milton Carroll">James Milton Carroll</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The theory proposes that Baptists have an unbroken lineage from the early church, while claiming that over time bishops or pastors started to assume more authority which led to the Catholic church being born and which led to errors. </p><p>Groups often included in the succession line are <a href="/wiki/Montanism" title="Montanism">Montanists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Novatianism" title="Novatianism">Novationists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donatism" title="Donatism">Donatists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paulicianism" title="Paulicianism">Paulicians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catharism" title="Catharism">Cathars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Waldensians" title="Waldensians">Waldenses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Petrobrusians" title="Petrobrusians">Petrobrusians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arnoldists" title="Arnoldists">Arnoldists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henricians" class="mw-redirect" title="Henricians">Henricians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hussites" title="Hussites">Hussites</a> (partly), <a href="/wiki/Lollardy" title="Lollardy">Lollards</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Anabaptism" title="Anabaptism">Anabaptists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Supporters of the theory argue that groups such as Bogomils, Paulicians, or Cathars were Baptist in doctrine instead of <a href="/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism">Gnostic</a>; with, for example, Berlin Hisel arguing that many charges put towards Bogomils were false.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novatians">Novatians</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Novatians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hisel claimed that the Novatians were credobaptists and accepted rebaptism.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Though Augustine mentions that the Novatians rebaptized converts, the evidence for them being credobaptist has been called "weak".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Paulicians">Paulicians</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Paulicians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Berlin Hisel argued against the accusations put towards the Paulicians, such as rejection of the writings of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Peter" title="Saint Peter">Peter the Apostle</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a>, and argued that the Paulicians held to the orthodox view of the <a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a>, a reason for the denial of many charges towards Paulicians was that the sources we have were made by their opponents. It was also put forward that the Paulicians believed in <a href="/wiki/Believer%27s_baptism" title="Believer's baptism">Believer's baptism</a> along with the Bogomils.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bogomils">Bogomils</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bogomils"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hisel claimed that the charges of rejecting baptism likely meant a rejection of <a href="/wiki/Infant_baptism" title="Infant baptism">infant baptism</a> and trine-immersion, which could have been taken as rejection of baptism itself, since the sources that exist about Bogomilism are from people who opposed them, and thus he argued that these sources should be taken with suspicion.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Baptist_successionism.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Baptist_successionism.png/367px-Baptist_successionism.png" decoding="async" width="367" height="262" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Baptist_successionism.png/551px-Baptist_successionism.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Baptist_successionism.png/734px-Baptist_successionism.png 2x" data-file-width="798" data-file-height="570" /></a><figcaption>Baptist successionism</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cathars">Cathars</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Cathars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_Catharism_and_Protestantism" title="Comparison of Catharism and Protestantism">Comparison of Catharism and Protestantism</a></div> <p>Hisel further argued that the claim of the Cathars rejecting marriage likely only meant rejecting marriage as a sacrament.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was also argued that they rejected <a href="/wiki/Infant_baptism" title="Infant baptism">infant baptism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baptismal_regeneration" title="Baptismal regeneration">baptismal regeneration</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Waldensians">Waldensians</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Waldensians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hisel stated in his book that; the Cathars and Waldensians are connected directly in origin, and thus followed similar doctrine.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arnoldists">Arnoldists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Arnoldists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hisel made the case that the Arnoldists were baptist in doctrine, as evidence the Lateran council is quoted where <a href="/wiki/Arnold_of_Brescia" title="Arnold of Brescia">Arnold of Brescia</a> was condemned for rejecting <a href="/wiki/Infant_baptism" title="Infant baptism">infant baptism</a> and for the rejection of <a href="/wiki/Transubstantiation" title="Transubstantiation">transubstantiation</a>. A direct connection with Arnoldists and Waldensians was also claimed to support succession, a direct link was also argued with Arnoldists and <a href="/wiki/Peter_of_Bruys" title="Peter of Bruys">Petro-Brussians</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anabaptists">Anabaptists</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Anabaptists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the book <i>Baptist History Notebook</i>, to support a succession, <a href="/wiki/Johann_Lorenz_von_Mosheim" title="Johann Lorenz von Mosheim">Mosheim</a> (a Lutheran historian) is quoted as saying; <i>"The true origin of that sect which acquired the denomination of Anabaptists by their administering anew the rite of baptism to those who came over to their communion, and derived that of Mennonites from the famous man to whom they owe the greatest part of their present felicity, <b>is hidden in the depths of antiquity</b>, and is, of consequence, extremely difficult to be ascertained".</i> It was thus argued that the Anabaptists have a succession from earlier groups such as Waldensians.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Perpetuity">Perpetuity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Perpetuity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The perpetuity view is often identified with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Trail_of_Blood" title="The Trail of Blood">The Trail of Blood</a></i>, a pamphlet by <a href="/wiki/James_Milton_Carroll" title="James Milton Carroll">James Milton Carroll</a> published in 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198759–60_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198759–60-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other Baptist writers who held the perpetuity view are <a href="/wiki/John_T._Christian" title="John T. Christian">John T. Christian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Crosby_(Baptist)" title="Thomas Crosby (Baptist)">Thomas Crosby</a>, G. H. Orchard, J. M. Cramp, William Cathcart, Adam Taylor and D. B. Ray.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198759–60Torbet197518_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198759–60Torbet197518-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This view was once commonly held among Baptists.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETorbet197518_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETorbet197518-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the end of the 19th century, however, the theory has increasingly come under attack and today has been largely discredited.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrackney2004McGoldrick2000_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrackney2004McGoldrick2000-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (February 2013)">page needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Nonetheless, the view continued to be the prevailing view among Baptists of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern United States</a> into the latter 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPatterson19696_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson19696-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is now identified primarily with <a href="/wiki/Landmarkism" title="Landmarkism">Landmarkism</a>, which is upheld by the <a href="/wiki/Independent_Baptist" title="Independent Baptist">Independent Fundamental Baptist</a> movement, though not exclusively so.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198758Patterson19696_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198758Patterson19696-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The concept attempts to parallel the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Orthodox">Eastern Orthodox</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> doctrine of <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_succession" title="Apostolic succession">apostolic succession</a> and stands in contrast to the restorationist views of <a href="/wiki/Mormons" title="Mormons">Latter Day Saints</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Stone-Campbell_Restoration_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement">Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETorbet197519_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETorbet197519-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contemporary_view">Contemporary view</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Contemporary view"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since the end of the 19th century the trend in academic Baptist <a href="/wiki/Historiography" title="Historiography">historiography</a> has been away from the successionist viewpoint to the view that modern day Baptists are an outgrowth of 17th-century <a href="/wiki/English_Separatist" class="mw-redirect" title="English Separatist">English Separatism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECross1990174_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECross1990174-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This shift precipitated a controversy among <a href="/wiki/Southern_Baptists" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Baptists">Southern Baptists</a> which occasioned the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention#Whitsitt_controversy" title="Southern Baptist Convention">forced resignation of William H. Whitsitt</a>, a professor at <a href="/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Seminary" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Baptist Seminary">Southern Baptist Seminary</a>, in 1898 from the seminary for advocating the new view, though his views continued to be taught in the seminary after his departure.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcBeth1987457–458_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcBeth1987457–458-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anabaptism#Medieval_forerunners" title="Anabaptism">Anabaptism § Medieval forerunners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landmarkism" title="Landmarkism">Landmarkism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Restorationism" title="Restorationism">Restorationism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christadelphians#Other_historical_groups_and_individuals_with_some_shared_doctrines" title="Christadelphians">Christadelphians § Other historical groups and individuals with some shared doctrines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gospel_Hall_Assemblies#History" title="Gospel Hall Assemblies">Gospel Hall Assemblies § History</a></li> <li><i>The Pilgrim Church</i> by <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Hamer_Broadbent" title="Edmund Hamer Broadbent">Edmund Hamer Broadbent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Protestantism" title="Proto-Protestantism">Proto-Protestantism</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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Brockett, who wrote a history of them says: 'Among these (historians of the Bulgarians) I have found, often in unexpected quarters, the most conclusive evidence that these sects were all, during their early history, Baptists</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Baptist+History+Notebook&rft.aulast=Hisel&rft.aufirst=Berlin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHisel2017" class="citation book cs1">Hisel, Berlin (2017). <i>Baptist History Notebook</i>. pp. 91–99.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Baptist+History+Notebook&rft.pages=91-99&rft.date=2017&rft.aulast=Hisel&rft.aufirst=Berlin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHodges1844" class="citation book cs1">Hodges, William (1844). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Re1LAAAAYAAJ&dq=Novatian+infant+baptism&pg=PA146"><i>Infant Baptism Tested by Scripture and History: Or, The Infants Claim to Church Membership Defended and Established, on Testimony Scriptural and Historical</i></a>. Stavely and M'Calla ; New York : Stanford and Swords ; Alexandria : Bell and Entwisle.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Infant+Baptism+Tested+by+Scripture+and+History%3A+Or%2C+The+Infants+Claim+to+Church+Membership+Defended+and+Established%2C+on+Testimony+Scriptural+and+Historical&rft.pub=Stavely+and+M%27Calla+%3B+New+York+%3A+Stanford+and+Swords+%3B+Alexandria+%3A+Bell+and+Entwisle&rft.date=1844&rft.aulast=Hodges&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DRe1LAAAAYAAJ%26dq%3DNovatian%2Binfant%2Bbaptism%26pg%3DPA146&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/14083.htm">"CHURCH FATHERS: On Baptism, Book III (Augustine)"</a>. <i>www.newadvent.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2021-11-30</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.newadvent.org&rft.atitle=CHURCH+FATHERS%3A+On+Baptism%2C+Book+III+%28Augustine%29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newadvent.org%2Ffathers%2F14083.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHisel2017" class="citation book cs1">Hisel, Berlin (2017). <i>Baptist History Notebook</i>. pp. 173–178.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Baptist+History+Notebook&rft.pages=173-178&rft.date=2017&rft.aulast=Hisel&rft.aufirst=Berlin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:1-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:1_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHisel2017" class="citation book cs1">Hisel, Berlin (2017). <i>Baptist History Notebook</i>. pp. 157–165.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Baptist+History+Notebook&rft.pages=157-165&rft.date=2017&rft.aulast=Hisel&rft.aufirst=Berlin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHisel2017" class="citation book cs1">Hisel, Berlin (2017). <i>Baptist History Notebook</i>. p. 134.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Baptist+History+Notebook&rft.pages=134&rft.date=2017&rft.aulast=Hisel&rft.aufirst=Berlin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHisel2017" class="citation book cs1">Hisel, Berlin (2017). <i>Baptist History Notebook</i>. pp. 128–133.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Baptist+History+Notebook&rft.pages=128-133&rft.date=2017&rft.aulast=Hisel&rft.aufirst=Berlin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHisel2017" class="citation book cs1">Hisel, Berlin (2017). <i>Baptist History Notebook</i>. pp. 166–172.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Baptist+History+Notebook&rft.pages=166-172&rft.date=2017&rft.aulast=Hisel&rft.aufirst=Berlin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198759–60-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198759–60_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMcBeth1987">McBeth 1987</a>, pp. 59–60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198759–60Torbet197518-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198759–60Torbet197518_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMcBeth1987">McBeth 1987</a>, pp. 59–60; <a href="#CITEREFTorbet1975">Torbet 1975</a>, p. 18.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETorbet197518-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETorbet197518_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTorbet1975">Torbet 1975</a>, p. 18.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrackney2004McGoldrick2000-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrackney2004McGoldrick2000_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBrackney2004">Brackney 2004</a>; <a href="#CITEREFMcGoldrick2000">McGoldrick 2000</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPatterson19696-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPatterson19696_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPatterson1969">Patterson 1969</a>, p. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198758Patterson19696-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcBeth198758Patterson19696_19-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMcBeth1987">McBeth 1987</a>, p. 58; <a href="#CITEREFPatterson1969">Patterson 1969</a>, p. 6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTETorbet197519-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTETorbet197519_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFTorbet1975">Torbet 1975</a>, p. 19.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTECross1990174-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTECross1990174_21-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCross1990">Cross 1990</a>, p. 174.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcBeth1987457–458-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcBeth1987457–458_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMcBeth1987">McBeth 1987</a>, pp. 457–458.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Works_cited">Works cited</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baptist_successionism&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Works cited"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-hanging-indents refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 35em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrackney2004" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/William_H._Brackney" title="William H. Brackney">Brackney, William H.</a> (2004). <i>A Genetic History of Baptist Thought: With Special Reference to Baptists in Britain and North America</i>. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-86554-913-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-86554-913-5"><bdi>978-0-86554-913-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Genetic+History+of+Baptist+Thought%3A+With+Special+Reference+to+Baptists+in+Britain+and+North+America&rft.place=Macon%2C+Georgia&rft.pub=Mercer+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=978-0-86554-913-5&rft.aulast=Brackney&rft.aufirst=William+H.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCross1990" class="citation book cs1">Cross, I. K. (1990). <i>The Battle For Baptist History</i>. Columbus, Georgia: Brentwood Christian Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-89211-337-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-89211-337-8"><bdi>978-0-89211-337-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Battle+For+Baptist+History&rft.place=Columbus%2C+Georgia&rft.pub=Brentwood+Christian+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=978-0-89211-337-8&rft.aulast=Cross&rft.aufirst=I.+K.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcBeth1987" class="citation book cs1">McBeth, H. Leon (1987). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/baptistheritage0000mcbe"><i>The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness</i></a></span>. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8054-6569-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8054-6569-3"><bdi>978-0-8054-6569-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Baptist+Heritage%3A+Four+Centuries+of+Baptist+Witness&rft.place=Nashville%2C+Tennessee&rft.pub=Broadman+Press&rft.date=1987&rft.isbn=978-0-8054-6569-3&rft.aulast=McBeth&rft.aufirst=H.+Leon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbaptistheritage0000mcbe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcGoldrick2000" class="citation book cs1">McGoldrick, James Edward (2000). <i>Baptist Successionism: A Crucial Question in Baptist History</i>. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-3681-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-3681-5"><bdi>978-0-8108-3681-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Baptist+Successionism%3A+A+Crucial+Question+in+Baptist+History&rft.place=Lanham%2C+Maryland&rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-8108-3681-5&rft.aulast=McGoldrick&rft.aufirst=James+Edward&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPatterson1969" class="citation book cs1">Patterson, W. Morgan (1969). <i>Baptist Successionism: A Critical View</i>. Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Judson Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8170-0420-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8170-0420-0"><bdi>978-0-8170-0420-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Baptist+Successionism%3A+A+Critical+View&rft.place=Valley+Forge%2C+Pennsylvania&rft.pub=Judson+Press&rft.date=1969&rft.isbn=978-0-8170-0420-0&rft.aulast=Patterson&rft.aufirst=W.+Morgan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaptist+successionism" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTorbet1975" class="citation book cs1">Torbet, Robert G. (1975). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofbaptist0000torb"><i>A History of the Baptists</i></a></span> (3rd ed.). 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