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Thomas Helwys (* um 1550 in Nottinghamshire; † 1616 in Newgate, England) gilt neben John Smyth als Mitbegründer der Baptisten und als früher Vorkämpfer der Religionsfreiheit. [1] Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Anfänge. 2 Als Glaubensflüchtling in Amsterdam. 3 Gründung der ersten Baptistengemeinde. 4 Forderung nach Religionsfreiheit. 5 Literatur. 6 Weblinks.
Thomas Helwys (c. 1575 – c. 1616), [1] an English minister, was one of the joint founders, with John Smyth, of the General Baptist denomination.
Died: c. 1616. Thomas Helwys (born c. 1550—died c. 1616) was an English Puritan leader, member of a Separatist group that emigrated to Amsterdam (1608), where he helped organize the first Baptist church. Returning to England (1611/12) to witness to his belief in adult Baptism and greater individual moral responsibility (against extreme ...
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25. Aug. 2022 · Thomas Helwys (c. 1575–c. 1616) was an English lawyer and theologian who holds an important place in American, Arminian, and Baptist history because of his defense of religious liberty, general atonement, and believer’s baptism.
Vor 6 Tagen · Thomas Helwys. (c. 1550—1616) Quick Reference. ( c. 1550– c. 1616), English Baptist. Having migrated to the Netherlands with J. Smyth in 1608, he became convinced that ‘Infant Baptism’ was invalid, and he joined Smyth's separatist community, the first Baptist Church to come into existence.
Thomas Helwys, (c. 1575 – c. 1616), was one of the joint founders of the Baptist denomination. He was, with John Smyth the leader of a non-conformist congregation of English émigrés in Amsterdam, where they had taken refuge from religious persecution in England, which they formed in the year 1608.
Thomas Helwys (†1615) is generally regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Baptist denomination and the pastor of the first Baptist church established on English soil in Spitalfields in London in about 1612. Originally from Nottinghamshire, Helwys led a group of English separatists to exile.
