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Jimmie T.Roberts (June 5, 1939 – December 6, 2015) was the founder of a religious movement known as The Brethren.Within the group, it is alternatively referred to as the Brothers, the Church, the Assembly, and The Body of Christ.
The Brethren is one of several informal names for a nameless religious movement created by Jimmie T. "Jim" Roberts. Other names include The Travellers, The Road Ministry, Body of Christ, and the Brothers and Sisters. The movement's members shun material things and family, living essentially as vagrants and doing odd jobs to pay their expenses.
It has the formal name The Master and Wardens and Brethren and Sisters of the Guild or Fraternity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin of the Mystery of Drapers of the City of London. More usually known simply as the Drapers' Company, it is one of the historic Great Twelve Livery Companies and was founded during the Middle Ages. [1]
Brethren is a name adopted by a wide range of mainly Christian religious groups throughout history. The largest movement is Anabaptist. Groups from the Middle Ages
The Evangelical United Brethren Church (EUB) was a North American Protestant denomination from 1946 to 1968 with Arminian theology, roots in the Mennonite and German Reformed communities, and close ties to Methodism.
A number of historical buildings associated with the guild still survive today. [1] The guild was created in 1269, when Bishop Giffard granted a licence to the brethren to build a chapel and to found a hospital. The Guild Chapel was built soon after. The guild was re-founded in 1403. [2]
The Church of the Brethren is an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the Schwarzenau Brethren tradition (German: Schwarzenauer Neutäufer "Schwarzenau New Baptists") that was organized in 1708 by Alexander Mack in Schwarzenau, Germany during the Radical Pietist revival. [1]
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