The American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA), formerly the Northern Baptist Convention, is a historic Baptist denomination established in the early twentieth century; it is the body from which the Conservative Baptist Association and other conservative Baptist bodies withdrew across the mid-twentieth century. ABCUSA maintains the local-church autonomy characteristic of Baptist polity but holds no binding confessional standard; regional associations and congregations range widely in theology. In practice, ABCUSA operates as a mainline Baptist body with significant progressive representation on sexuality and Scripture. AskCredo places ABCUSA in the C-tier as a confessionally mixed Baptist body whose institutional trajectory has moved substantially from its nineteenth-century evangelical origins.
None formal; Baptist heritage
congregational
mixed
North America · Founded 1907
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