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	Brethren of the Common Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Brethren of the Common Life was a religious community founded in the 14th century by Geert Groote, formerly a successful and worldly educator who had had a religious experience and preached a life of simple devotion.
		The Confraternity of the Common Life resembled in several respects the Beghard and Beguine communities which had flourished two centuries earlier and were then decadent.
		Before the fifteenth century closed, the Brethren of the Common Life had placed in all Germany and the Netherlands schools in which the teaching was given for the love of God alone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brethren_of_the_Common_Life (681 words)

	Brethren History & Genealogy
		Brethren Encyclopedia is a three-volume, 2,126 page encyclopedia of Brethren life, belief, practice, and history with index, compiled in 1983-1984.
		Brethren Groups is a document that will acquaint you with a historical, non-theological outline of the several denominations using the word Brethren in their label, and hopefully give you an overview of how we all fit together.
		The Brethren Heritage Center is a newly constructed facility in Brookville, Ohio, to serve as a repository for Brethren related materials.
	www.cob-net.org /genhis.htm (1478 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Brethren of the Common Life
		The reformer, of course, was opposed by the clerks whose evil lives he denounced, but the cry of heresy was raised in vain against one who was no less zealous for purity of faith than for purity of morals.
		Before the fifteenth century closed, the Brethren of the Common Life had studded all Germany and the Netherlands with schools in which the teaching was given for the love of God alone.
		A life of De Groote is to be found among the works of Thomas à Kempis.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04166b.htm (853 words)

	Eldrbarry's Reformation Class: The Brethren of the Common Life
		The Brethren of the Common Life were groups composed chiefly of laymen, though it was considered desirable that each house should contain some members of the clergy.
		Corresponding to the Brethren of the Common Life were the Sisters of the Common Life, and there was also a body of nuns who became the center of a movement of reform.
		Also educated in Brethren schools were Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa and Gabriel Biel (1425-1495) the last scholastic were taught by Brethern along with along with Luther and Calvin.
	www.eldrbarry.net /heidel/bcl.htm (1096 words)

	A Concise Description of Flanders: Mystics, Writers and Philosophers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She stressed the importance of self-knowledge in spiritual life.
		She believed that to become like Christ in humanity we must all be virtuous, and in being virtuous, we must use good judgement, and reason.
		His major aim near the end of his life was to elaborate an integration of the fragmented approaches of reality and existence.
	www.noosphere.cc /flandersMystics.html (5760 words)

	Cyndi's List - Religion & Churches
		The Smith Library at Shenandoah University maintains an archive of historical materials relating to Virginia Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church prior to the merger with the Methodist Church in 1968.
		The 1847 Government Report on Education is important for social historians of mid nineteenth century Wales because of the wealth of information contained in it on not only the appalling state of the education system in the country, but also on everyday life and work in both the industrialised & rural areas.
		Dedicated to genealogy and welcomes anyone who wants to exchange information and search for Brethren Roots (i.e., ancestors and families that are or were members the Church Group founded in 1708 near Swarzenau Germany).
	www.cyndislist.com /religion.htm (4385 words)

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