DAVEH:
I was under the impression that Baptists are Protestants.
Here's a WIKI definition........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist
Perhaps the following paragraph describes Kevin's perspective:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptist
Apostolic succession
Another popular theory is that the 16th century Anabaptists were part of an
apostolic succession of churches (or church perpetuity) from the time of
Christ. According to this idea there had been a continuity of small groups
outside the Catholic Church from A.D. 30 to 1525 (which continues also to
the present). Proponents of this view point out many common expressions of
belief in these Catholic dissenters. The opponents of this theory emphasize
that these non-Catholic groups differed from each other, that they held some
heretical views, and/or that they had no connection with one another. This
view is held by some Baptists, some Mennonites, and a number of "true
church" movements.³ The writings of John T. Christian, New Orleans Baptist
Theological Seminary professor, contain perhaps the best scholarly
presentation of this successionist view. Somewhat related to this is that
the Anabaptists are of Waldensian origin. Some hold the idea that the
Waldenses are part of the apostolic succession, while others simply believe
they were an independent group out of whom the Anabaptists arose. Estep
asserts "the Waldenses disappeared in Switzerland a century before the rise
of the Anabaptist movement." Ludwig Keller, Thomas M. Lindsay, H. C. Vedder,
Delbert Grätz, and Thieleman van Braght all held, in varying degrees, the
position that the Anabaptists were of Waldensian origin.
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