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The first Brethren congregation was established in the United States in 1723. These church bodies became commonly known as "Dunkards" or "Dunkers", and more formally as German Baptist Brethren. The Church of the Brethren represents the largest denomination descended from the Schwarzenau Brethren, adopting this name in 1908.
Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, a Czech Lutheran–Reformed Protestant church The Polish Brethren , also known as Socinians, were an Anti-trinitarian group, forerunners for the Unitarians The Social Brethren originated in Saline County, Illinois in 1867, the result of an attempt to put the slavery issue away in favor of uniting on a ...
Free Church of Scotland - has 9 congregations in North America; Free Church of Scotland (Continuing) - has 8 congregations in the USA; Associated Presbyterian Churches - has 1 congregation in Vancouver; Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland - has 3 congregations in the US and Canada; Chart of splits and mergers of North American Presbyterian ...
The visible church is the institutional body which contains both members of the invisible church as well as those who appear to have faith in Christ, but are not truly part of God's elect. [86] In order to identify the visible church, Reformed theologians have spoken of certain marks of the Church. For some, the only mark is the pure preaching ...
The Catholic Church, or Roman Catholic Church, is composed of 24 autonomous sui iuris particular churches: the Latin Church and the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches. It considers itself the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church that Christ founded, [ 64 ] and which Saint Peter initiated along with the missionary work of Saint Paul and others.
Expansion across the continent and changes due to the Industrial Revolution caused strain and conflict among the Brethren. In the early 1880s a major schism took place resulting in a three-way split: The traditional Old German Baptist Brethren, the progressive Brethren Church, and the conservative German Baptist Brethren, who later changed their name to the Church of the Brethren in 1908.
Universities and colleges affiliated with the Church of the Brethren (2 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Church of the Brethren" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Sixteenth-century portrait of John Calvin by an unknown artist. From the collection of the Bibliothèque de Genève (Library of Geneva). John Calvin is the most well-known Reformed theologian of the generation following Zwingli's death, but recent scholarship has argued that several previously overlooked individuals had at least as much influence on the development of Reformed Christianity and ...