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Presbiteriani contro battisti: confronto su battesimo dei neonati, anziani e congregazioni



  • Presbyterians baptize believers and the infants of believers, usually by pouring or sprinkling, while Baptists baptize only those who profess faith, and only by immersion.
  • Presbyterian churches are governed by elders in connected courts (session, presbytery, General Assembly), while each Baptist congregation governs itself and no convention has power over it.
  • Presbyterian confessions are Calvinist (Reformed): the PCA holds the Westminster Confession, and the PCUSA holds it among twelve documents in its Book of Confessions. Baptists range from Calvinist (the 1689 London Confession) to Arminian (Free Will Baptists), with the Southern Baptist confession in between.
  • The Southern Baptist confession makes a believer’s immersion a condition of membership and of the Lord’s Supper, though in practice most Southern Baptist churches invite all believers. The PCUSA invites all the baptized to the table and recognizes Baptist baptism.
  • Women pastors divide each family from within: the PCUSA ordains women and the PCA does not, and American Baptists ordain women while the Southern Baptist Convention does not.

Presbyterians and Baptists are Protestants who share most of their beliefs, and many on both sides are Calvinists. Where they part is baptism and church government. Presbyterians baptize believers and their infant children, usually by pouring or sprinkling, and are governed by elders in connected courts. Baptists baptize only people who profess faith, by immersion, and each congregation governs itself. The Baptists of the 1689 London Confession did not start from a blank sheet. They took the Presbyterians’ Westminster Confession…

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