The Baptist Movement had its source in the pattern and the experience of the Christian community of the New Testament Era. As a denomination, however, Baptists emerged as a part of the Protestant Reformation which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Britain and Continental Europe. This historic phenomenon, received its name from the attempts by some to reform the beliefs and practices of the then Established and Universal Church which was closely linked to the State, and from the subsequent protests by various persons when such attempts were registered by the authorities.

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