Protestanti contro Battisti: i Battisti sono protestanti? Sì, e in cosa differiscono

Yes, Baptists are Protestants. They are one family of Protestant churches, as Lutherans and Presbyterians are, and the largest such family in the United States. Two things set them apart from Lutheran, Reformed and Anglican churches: they baptize only people who profess faith, by immersion, and each congregation governs itself. The first difference you can see is in the water. A Baptist goes down into it as a believer and comes up again, and Baptists find in that the picture…