Baptist Union of Great Britain

BUGB, Baptist Union GB
C — Confessionally mixed

Overview

Baptists Together — the Baptist Union of Great Britain — is the principal Baptist denomination in England and Wales, with roots running back to the seventeenth-century English Baptist movement and formally organized in the nineteenth century. The Union holds local-church autonomy and no binding confession; its congregations range from conservative evangelical to broadly mainline, and since 2013 decisions on blessing same-sex relationships have been left to local churches, a pattern characteristic of its congregational polity. AskCredo places the Baptist Union in the C-tier as a confessionally mixed Baptist body whose institutional permissiveness on sexual ethics and biblical authority diverges substantially from its historic Particular Baptist heritage (1689 LBCF).

Confession / Standard

None formal; Baptist heritage

Governance

congregational

Soteriology

mixed

Key Beliefs

Distinctives

Background

UK & Ireland · Founded 1813

Official Website

https://baptist.org.uk

See also

Other denominations with a similar confession:

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