- published: 01 Feb 2015
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Baptists are Christians who comprise a group of denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and that it must be done by immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling). Other tenets of Baptist churches include soul competency (liberty), salvation through faith alone, scripture alone as the rule of faith and practice, and the autonomy of the local congregation. Baptists recognize two ministerial offices, pastors and deacons. Baptist churches are widely considered to be Protestant churches, though some Baptists disavow this identity.
Diverse from their beginning, those identifying as Baptists today differ widely from one another in what they believe, how they worship, their attitudes toward other Christians, and their understanding of what is important in Christian discipleship.
Historians trace the earliest Baptist church back to 1609 in Amsterdam, with English Separatist John Smyth as its pastor. In accordance with his reading of the New Testament, he rejected baptism of infants and instituted baptism only of believing adults. Baptist practice spread to England, where the General Baptists considered Christ's atonement to extend to all people, while the Particular Baptists believed that it extended only to the elect. In 1638, Roger Williams established the first Baptist congregation in the North American colonies. In the mid-18th century, the First Great Awakening increased Baptist growth in both New England and the South. The Second Great Awakening in the South in the early 19th century increased church membership, as did the preachers' lessening of support for abolition and manumission of slavery, which had been part of the 18th-century teachings. Baptist missionaries have spread their church to every continent.
Actors: Rainer Niermann (producer), Rainer Niermann (writer), Rainer Niermann (director), Judith Williams (actress), Keith Bisset (actor), Karla Guimarães (editor), Andrew Alexander (actor), Katja Krannich (costume designer), Heiko Nemmert (producer), Maitland Chandler (actor), James Musgrave (actor), Graham Hoadly (actor), Rachel Lyske (composer), Peter Osborne (actor), Milenne Tanganelli (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: The SnowWhite File is a musical film with a twist, shedding a new light onto the beloved story of SnowWhite. Somewhere in a long-forgotten corner of the Magic Archives a young magician discovers a secret file revealing the truth about the fairy tale. As it turns out the story, as we have known it, was actually a cover-up and the Wicked Queen nothing but the victim of a devious plot. But she certainly deserved what she got.
Genres: Musical, Mystery, Short,Actors: Peter Mullan (actor), Nigel Thomas (producer), Fernando Franco (editor), Stephen Warbeck (composer), Daniel Brühl (actor), Núria Casanueva (miscellaneous crew), Luis Tosar (actor), Antonio Chavarrías (producer), Tomas Eskilsson (producer), Gary Lewis (actor), Samuli Edelmann (actor), Christopher Fairbank (actor), Andrea Calderwood (producer), Bina Daigeler (costume designer), Jon Duncan (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller,Actors: David Gordon Green (director), David Gordon Green (writer), David Gordon Green (producer), Eddie Rouse (actor), Craig Zobel (producer), Zene Baker (editor), Will Janowitz (actor), Paul Schneider (actor), Lisa Muskat (producer), Scott Clackum (actor), Sam Froelich (producer), David Wingo (composer), Michael Tully (costume designer), Steven Gonzales (editor), Darius Shahmir (producer),
Plot: Set in a small town in North Carolina, George Washington is the story of a tight-knit multi-racial group of working-class kids caught in a tragic lie. After a twelve-year-old girl breaks up with her boyfriend for a sensitive, deeply introspective thirteen-year-old boy named George, a bizarre series of events and an innocent cover-up launches their insular group on individual quests for redemption.
Keywords: abandoned-amusement-park, abandoned-warehouse, accident, accidental-death, adolescence, adolescent, african-american, african-americans, american-flag, amusement-parkActors: Brigitte Catillon (actress), Eberhard Junkersdorf (producer), Dagmar Hirtz (editor), Stanley Myers (composer), Peter Berling (actor), Dieter Kirchlechner (actor), Julie Delpy (actress), Volker Schlöndorff (director), Philippe Morier-Genoud (actor), Sam Shepard (actor), Thomas Heinze (actor), August Zirner (actor), Barbara Sukowa (actress), Barbara Baum (costume designer), Max Frisch (writer),
Plot: Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind for him for past doings.
Keywords: 1950s, accidental-incest, airplane-accident, art, athens-greece, ballroom-dancing, based-on-book, based-on-novel, boat, coming-of-ageActors: Richard Oswald (writer), Viktor de Kowa (actor), Richard Oswald (producer), Roma Bahn (actress), Blandine Ebinger (actress), Ilse Fürstenberg (actress), Gerhard Bienert (actor), Paul Henckels (actor), Fred Goebel (actor), Eugen Klöpfer (actor), Michael von Newlinsky (actor), Harald Paulsen (actor), Paul Wegener (actor), Franz Stein (actor), Edgar Allan Poe (writer),
Plot: A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.
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