Primitive Baptists

[3] The controversy over whether churches or their members should participate in mission boards, Bible tract societies, and temperance societies led the Primitive Baptists to separate from other general Baptist groups that supported such organizations, and to make declarations of opposition to such organizations in articles like the Kehukee Association Declaration of 1827.

[7][8][9] Primitive Baptist churches arose in the mountainous regions of the American South, where they are found in their greatest numbers.

[5] Primitive Baptists reject some elements of classical Reformed theology, such as infant baptism, and avoid the term "Calvinist".

[13] They were encouraged in this direction by 19th century itinerant Christian universalist preachers of similar theological bent to Hosea Ballou and John Murray.

[17] Primitive Baptists reject the idea of Sunday School,[18] viewing it as unscriptural and interfering with the right of parents to give religious instruction to their children.

[20] Primitive Baptists consider theological seminaries to have "no warrant or sanction from the New Testament, nor in the example of Christ and the apostles".