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The Dunkard Brethren Church is a Conservative Anabaptist denomination of the Schwarzenau Brethren tradition, which organized in 1926 when they withdrew from the Church of the Brethren in the United States. [2] The Dunkard Brethren Church observes the ordinances of baptism, feetwashing, communion, the holy kiss, headcovering, and anointing of ...
The Schwarzenau Brethren, the German Baptist Brethren, Dunkers, Dunkard Brethren, Tunkers, [1] or sometimes simply called the German Baptists, are an Anabaptist group that dissented from Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed European state churches during the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Church of God (New Dunkers) was a religious group that was formed in 1848 by dissidents of the Schwarzenau Brethren (now known as Church of the Brethren).. The Church appear to be indebted to Peter Eyman (ca. 1805–1852) for their origin.
His questionable claim that "no force in religion" had been a Brethren teaching since their founding reinforced his calls to relax church discipline. [8] These changes led to an exodus of many conservative Brethren in the 1920s, who organized the Dunkard Brethren Church, which continues to uphold the Brethren practices of plain dress and ...
The Old German Baptist Brethren are historically known as German Baptists in contrast to English Baptists, who have different roots.Other names by which they are sometimes identified are Dunkers, Dunkards, Tunkers, and Täufer, all relating to their practice of baptism by immersion.
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.
Grace Communion International, formerly the Worldwide Church of God, which has repudiated virtually all Armstrongist beliefs starting in the late 1980s; Church of God International (United States), based in Tyler, Texas
Dunkard may refer to: Dunkards, colloquial name for the Schwarzenau Brethren , a German Anabaptist group founded 1708 Dunkard Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania , administrative territorial subdivision in the United States