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Baptistic doctrine

Baptistic doctrine

9.5
Religious teachings that stress a ceremony using water to show a person's choice to join the church
  • noun
  • /ˈbæptɪstɪk ˈdɒktrɪn/
  • Specialized
translation icon : doctrina bautista
  • The church follows the Baptistic doctrine of believer's baptism.

Examples

  • The church still adheres to a Baptistic doctrine that emphasizes adult baptism.

  • Some congregations follow a Baptistic doctrine, requiring members to make a personal confession of faith.

  • Many religious scholars have studied the influence of Baptistic doctrine on American Protestantism.

  • Many congregations adopt Baptistic doctrines to guide their practices.

  • Some congregations follow a Baptistic doctrine, requiring members to make a personal confession of faith.

  • The church still adheres to a Baptistic doctrine that emphasizes adult baptism.

  • The church follows the Baptistic doctrine of believer's baptism.

Synonyms

Anabaptism
vsBaptistic doctrine
1 9.9

A Christian movement from the 1500s that teaches baptism only for believing adults and separation of church and state

focuses on teachings stressing voluntary adult baptism and joining by professed faith

Surface Forms

Baptistic doctrine singular
Baptistic doctrines plural

Morphology

Baptistic + doctrine

This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'Baptistic' (relating to Baptist beliefs) combined with 'doctrine' (a belief system) yields the meaning 'doctrines related to Baptist teachings.' The semantic relation is directly derivable from the constituents and follows a common cross-linguistic pattern, so a learner who knows both words would understand it.

Etymology

Baptistic doctrine comes from the idea of baptism, which is going into water to show a person's own choice, and doctrine means 'teaching'. So the phrase names the 'teaching that people should be baptized only after they choose to believe and join the church by their own decision'.