• The Open Brethren, sometimes called Christian Brethren, are a group of Evangelical Christian churches that arose in the late 1820s as part of the Assembly...
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    The Plymouth Brethren or Assemblies of Brethren are a low church and Nonconformist Christian movement whose history can be traced back to Dublin, Ireland...
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    Exclusive Brethren are a subset of the Christian evangelical movement generally described as the Plymouth Brethren. They are distinguished from the Open Brethren...
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    practice, with the international Open Brethren movement, with whom nearly all of them are historically affiliated. The Brethren in India, as in most other countries...
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    The Church of the Brethren is an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the Schwarzenau Brethren tradition (German: Schwarzenauer Neutäufer "Schwarzenau...
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    The Kerala Brethren are a subset of the Open Brethren movement. In the South Indian State of Kerala, four Syrian Christian (Nasrani) men who came from...
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    these are again shared around.: 375  The Exclusive Brethren follow a similar practice to the Open Brethren. They also call the Eucharist the Breaking of Bread...
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  • Plymouth Brethren Christian Church (PBCC) (an Australian Public Company Limited by Guarantee, ACN: 158 542 075) also known as Raven Brethren or Taylorites...
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  • Schwarzenau Brethren. Moreover, the Italian fellowship of Brethren has largely incorporated elements of the Plymouth Brethren tradition, both in the Open Brethren...
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    John Eliot Howard (category British Plymouth Brethren)
    of the Brook Street Chapel that Howard's transition to Brethren – and specifically "Open Brethren", as they came to be known – was complete. Howard married...
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    George Müller (category British Plymouth Brethren)
    one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split, his group was called the Open Brethren. He cared for 10,024 orphans during...
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    The Brethren Church is an Anabaptist Christian denomination with roots in and one of several groups that trace its origins back to the Schwarzenau Brethren...
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    evangelical and dispensational. They are a conservative strand of the Open Brethren movement and tend to only collaborate with other assemblies when there...
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    The Schwarzenau Brethren, the German Baptist Brethren, Dunkers, Dunkard Brethren, Tunkers, or sometimes simply called the German Baptists, are an Anabaptist...
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    (formerly known as the Christian Brethren Church of New Zealand) is the name by which some churches in the Open Brethren movement in New Zealand are now...
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    Benjamin Wills Newton (category British Plymouth Brethren)
    practice. This led to a 1848 split of the movement into the Open Brethren and Exclusive Brethren. Newton was born in Plymouth Dock, Devon in a Quaker family...
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  • Christian Community Churches of Australia (category Plymouth Brethren)
    The Christian Community Churches of Australia are a network of Open Brethren churches, or "assemblies", in Australia. They do not form a denomination...
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  • had lost sight of.) The Churches of God (Needed Truth Brethren) seceded from the Open Brethren around 1892[citation needed] ("The Separation"), as a result...
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    Volbrecht Nagel (category German Plymouth Brethren)
    Evangelical Lutheran Church, he later joined the Open Brethren, and is remembered now as a pioneer of the Kerala Brethren movement. Volbrecht Nagel was born on 3...
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    John Nelson Darby (category Plymouth Brethren)
    the influential figures among the original Plymouth Brethren and the founder of the Exclusive Brethren. He is considered to be the father of modern dispensationalism...
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  • Apostolic Brethren (13th century), mendicant order similar to the Franciscans Kalands Brethren (13th century), German charitable organization Brethren of the...
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  • Baptists, Lutheranism, Methodism, Moravianism, Pentecostalism, Plymouth Brethren, Quakerism, Reformed, and Waldensianism) compose Western Christianity....
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    Daniel Jacob Danielsen (category Faroese Plymouth Brethren)
    1871 – 16 October 1916), nicknamed Dollin, was a Danish-born Faroese Open Brethren missionary, marine engineer, and humanitarian. While working for the...
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  • The Unity of the Brethren is a Protestant church formed in the 1800s by Czech immigrants to Texas, where the church is still based, in the tradition of...
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  • The Brethren in Christ Church (BIC) is a River Brethren Christian denomination. Falling within the Anabaptist tradition of Christianity, the Brethren in...
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  • James George Deck (category British Plymouth Brethren)
    came to a head in 1848, the Brethren movement split into the Exclusive Brethren (led by John Nelson Darby) and the Open Brethren (led by George Mueller)....
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    an open communion with any baptized Christian: today, following John Nelson Darby, Exclusive Brethren practise closed communion, and Open Brethren practise...
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    Raised in Rockville, Maryland, in the conservative Open Brethren, part of the Plymouth Brethren, McLaren became attracted to the countercultural Jesus...
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    Assemblies Jehovah Shammah (category Plymouth Brethren)
    ecclesiology were much influenced by the Open Brethren. Although historically distinct from the Indian Brethren movement, which originated from missionary...
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    India. The Open Brethren movement is also significantly represented in India. The main Brethren grouping is known as the Indian Brethren (with a following...
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