Brethren - Other Religious Groups

Other Religious Groups

• Apostolic United Brethren, a Mormon fundamentalist group.
• The Brethren (Jim Roberts group), an apocalyptic Jesus people movement from the 1970s.
• Brethren of Purity, an esoteric Muslim sect.
• The Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America is neither Anabaptist nor Pietistic, but is the result of a late 19th century spiritual awakening among Lutheran congregations in the upper Midwestern United States. They formed a separate synod in 1900.
• Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, a Czech Lutheran–Reformed Protestant church
• The Moravian Brethren (also known as United Brethren or Unitas Fratrum and Bohemian Brethren) descend from the followers of Jan Hus, a Czech reformer burned at the stake in 1415 and mainly Bohemian 15th century nobleman and theologian Peter Chelcicky.
• The Polish Brethren—also known as Socinians—were an Antitrinitarian 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 common belief in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
• Studite Brethren, a society in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.
• The United Seventh-Day Brethren is an Adventist body.
• The Unity of the Brethren also traces its roots to the work of Hus.