Add this copy of The First Baptist Church in America to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Charitable Baptist Society.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Nice inscription on fep. 146 p. : ill. (some col. ); 21 cm. List of Ministers o the Church. Index. From Wikipedia: "The First Baptist Church in America is the First Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island, also known as First Baptist Meetinghouse. The oldest Baptist church congregation in the United States, it was founded by Roger Williams in Providence, Rhode Island in 1638. Roger Williams had been holding religious services in his home for nearly a year before he converted his congregation into a Baptist church in 1638. This followed his founding of Providence in 1636. For the next sixty years, the congregation met outside or in congregants' homes. Roger Williams was a Calvinist, but within a few years of its founding, the congregation became more Arminian, and was a General Six-Principle Baptist church by 1652. When it was built in 1774 75, the current Meeting House represented a departure from the traditional Baptist meetinghouse style. It was the first Baptist meetinghouse to have a steeple and bell, making it more like Anglican and Congregational buildings."
