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John Smyth è stato un predicatore e teologo inglese. Già ministro della Chiesa di Inghilterra, è esponente di rilievo dell'ala radicale del puritanesimo inglese. È considerato l'antesignano, con Thomas Helwys, del movimento delle chiese battiste per il quale costituisce la transizione fra puritanesimo e battismo. Si distingue ...
John Smyth (c. 1554 – c. 28 August 1612) was an English Anglican, Baptist, then Mennonite minister and a defender of the principle of religious liberty.
John Smyth was an English religious libertarian and Nonconformist minister, called “the Se-baptist” (self-baptizer), who is generally considered the founder of the organized Baptists of England. He also influenced the Pilgrim Fathers who immigrated to North America in 1620.
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24 gen 2024 · La commissione storica dell’Unione evangelica battista d’Italia (Ucebi) offre ai lettori e alle lettrici l’opera di John Smyth, Il marchio della bestia*, curata dal pastore Martin Ibarra Pérez e pubblicata per le edizioni Gbu nella collana di studi battisti.
19 ago 2020 · When he was exiled to Amsterdam from his native England, John Smyth gathered three dozen of his followers around him. The former Anglican preacher and Cambridge fellow recited a confession of...
John Smyth (1570 – c. August 28, 1612) was co-founder, with Thomas Helwys of the modern Baptist denomination, Ordained as an Anglican Priest, he soon identified with the Separatists who opposed State control of the Church, and became pastor of the Independent or Congregational Church in Gainsborough, where he had attended the Grammar School.
26 ago 2021 · Unsurprisingly given his schooling in Elizabethan Puritanism, John Smyth’s early works show that he held to standard Calvinistic positions on election, reprobation, and original sin. By 1610 he had clearly repudiated these positions. This essay explores when and why he changed his mind.
