Independent Baptist Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==History== {{further|Baptists}} [[File:Tewkesbury Independent Baptist Church - geograph.org.uk - 3227558.jpg|thumb|Tewkesbury Independent Baptist Church in [[Tewkesbury]], UK]] The modern Independent Baptist tradition began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among local denominational Baptist congregations whose members were concerned about the advancement of [[modernism]] and [[theological liberalism]] into national Baptist denominations and conventions in the United States and the United Kingdom.<ref name="Marsden 1980, pp. 55β62, 118-23">Marsden (1980), pp. 55β62, 118β23.</ref><ref>W. Glenn Jonas Jr., ''The Baptist River'', Mercer University Press, USA, 2008, p. 96</ref> In response to the concerns, some local Baptist churches separated from their former denominations and conventions and reestablished the congregations as Independent Baptist churches. In other cases, the more conservative members of existing churches withdrew from their local congregations and set about establishing new Independent Baptist churches.<ref>{{cite book|title=In Pursuit of Purity: American Fundamentalism Since 1850| author=Beale, David O. |publisher= [[BJU Press]] |year=1986 | isbn=9780890843505}}{{Page needed|date=November 2010}}</ref> Although some Independent Baptist churches refuse affiliation with Baptist denominations, various Independent Baptist Church denominations have been founded.<ref>William H. Brackney, ''Historical Dictionary of the Baptists'', Scarecrow Press, USA, 2009, p. 297</ref> There is the [[World Baptist Fellowship]] founded in 1933 at [[Fort Worth, Texas]] by [[J. Frank Norris]].<ref>William H. Brackney, ''Historical Dictionary of the Baptists'', Scarecrow Press, USA, 2009, p. 623</ref> Doctrinal differences in the latter led to the founding of the [[Baptist Bible Fellowship International]] in 1950 and the [[Independent Baptist Fellowship International]] in 1984.<ref>Robert E. Johnson, ''A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches'', Cambridge University Press, UK, 2010, p. 357</ref> Various independent Baptist Bible colleges were also founded.<ref>William H. Brackney, ''Congregation and Campus: Baptists in Higher Education'', Mercer University Press, USA, 2008, p. 376</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page