Baptist successionism is a controversial theory about the origins of the Baptist tradition. The theory postulates an unbroken lineage of churches which have held beliefs similar to those of current Ba
Diagram representing The Trail of Blood as presented by James Milton Carroll
Charles-André van Loo's 18th-century Augustine arguing with Donatists
Pope Innocent III excommunicating the Albigensians (left), massacre of the Albigensians by the crusaders (right)
A 1685 illustration by Jan Luyken, published in Martyrs Mirror, of Dirk Willems saving his pursuer, an act of mercy that led to his recapture, after which he was burned at the stake near Asperen in the present-day Netherlands