Editing Primitive Baptists (section)

{{Short description|Conservative Baptists adhering to a degree of Calvinist beliefs}}
{{Infobox Christian denomination
|name = Primitive Baptist churches
|main_classification = Primitive Baptists
|theology = [[Calvinism|Calvinistic]] [[Baptist]]<ref name="LarsenLedgerLomas2017"/>
|orientation = Conservative
|polity = [[Congregational]]
|separations = [[Missionary Baptists]]
|area = [[United States]], mainly in the southern states
|founded_date = 19th century
}}
{{Baptist}}

'''Primitive Baptists''' &ndash; also known as '''Regular Baptists''', '''Old School Baptists''', '''Foot Washing Baptists''', or, derisively, '''Hard Shell Baptists'''<ref>[[Bertram Wyatt-Brown|Wyatt-Brown, Bertram]] (2001) ''The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s - 1880s''. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. {{isbn|978-0-8078-4912-5}} p.109</ref> &ndash; are conservative [[Baptists]] adhering to a degree of [[Calvinist]] beliefs who coalesced out of the controversy among Baptists in the early 19th century over the appropriateness of [[Christian mission|mission boards]], [[Tract (literature)#Religious tracts|tract societies]], and [[temperance societies]].{{Sfn | Crowley | 2006 | p = [https://books.google.com/books?id=9cJjleldIVEC&pg=PA158  158]}}<ref name= "Mead1">{{cite book| last1 = Mead | first1 = Frank S | first2 = Samuel S | last2 = Hill | first3 = Craig D | last3 = Atwood | title= Handbook of Denominations in the United States | edition= twelfth |year= 2005 |publisher= [[Abingdon Press]]| location= Nashville | isbn= 0-687-05784-1 | pages= 207–8| title-link = Handbook of Denominations in the United States }}</ref> Primitive Baptists are a subset of the [[Reformed Baptists|Calvinistic Baptist]] tradition.<ref name="LarsenLedgerLomas2017">{{cite book |last1=Larsen |first1=Timothy |last2=Ledger-Lomas |first2=Michael |title=The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume III: The Nineteenth Century |date=28 April 2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-150667-3 |page=239 |language=en}}</ref> The adjective "primitive" in the name is used in the sense of "original".{{Sfn | Crowley | 2006 | p = [https://books.google.com/books?id=9cJjleldIVEC&pg=PA158  158]}}