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Chapters: Church of the Brethren Clergy, Clergy of the Moravian Church, United Brethren in Christ Clergy, Louis Bauman, Samuel Hiestand, Milton Wright, David Zeisberger, Alexander Mack, David Eller, Bob Richards, Donald F. Durnbaugh, Conrad Beissel, David Hocking, Martin Grove Brumbaugh, Brian Magnus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 65. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Christianity Protestantism Anabaptism Radical Pietism Radical Reformation The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination originating from the Schwarzenau Brethren (German: or "Schwarzenau New Baptists") organized in 1708 by eight persons led by Alexander Mack, in Schwarzenau, Bad Berleburg, Germany. The Brethren movement began as a melding of Radical Pietist and Anabaptist ideas during the Protestant Reformation. The first of its churches in the United States was established in 1723. These church bodies became commonly known as Dunkers and more formally as German Baptist Brethren. The denomination holds the New Testament as its only creed. Historically the church has taken a strong stance for non-resistance or pacifism. Distinctive practices include believers baptism by trine immersion; a threefold love feast consisting of feet washing, a fellowship meal, and communion; anointing for healing; and the holy kiss. The Church of the Brethren represents the largest body descending from Mack's Schwarzenau Brethren church. The German Baptist Brethren suffered a major division in the early 1880s, creating the three wings: traditionalists such as the Old German Baptist Brethren, progressives lead by The Brethren Church, and the original majority known as conservatives later adopting the name "Church of the Brethren" in 1908. The latter body had 124,408 members as of June 2009 and 1,035 congregations in the United Stat...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=82193 ... Read more