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.

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