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  Old German Baptist Brethren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Old German Baptist Brethren (OGBB) descend from a pietist movement in Schwarzenau, Germany in 1708, when Alexander Mack founded a community with 8 believers.
The Old German Baptist Brethren represent a conservative faction that would not tolerate certain modern innovations of the 19th century.
There are several different Brethren groups that are not related to the Schwarzenau movement, such as the Plymouth Brethren that arose in England and Ireland early in the 19th century through the labors of Edward Cronin and John Nelson Darby.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_German_Baptist_Brethren   (455 words)

  
 Origins of the Church of the Brethren and Other Brethren (Groups
Old German Baptist Brethren (Old Order) - withdrew from the main group in l881, feeling that the church was not being true to its heritage.
Five major groups contributed to the Encyclopedia: the Brethren Church, the Church of the Brethren, the Dunkard Brethren, the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, and the Old German Baptist Brethren.
Brethren Historical Library and Archives, located in the lower level of the National Headquarters of the Church of the Brethren, 1451 Dundee Avenue, Elgin, IL 60120.
www.berksgenes.org /brethren.htm   (1185 words)

  
 Anabaptists Today
The Brethren (Church of the Brethren, Brethren Church, Grace Brethren, Dunkard Brethren, and the German Baptists) are a Pietist group that began in Schwarzenau, Germany, in 1708 and adopted many of the practices of the Anabaptist groups with which they had contact.
Old Order German Baptist Brethren - horse and buggy, non-electric.
The Baptists (the big denomination, not to be confused with the German Baptists) are a Protestant group that began in England about 1610 by several men who had spent several years in Holland and came back with the understanding of believer’s baptism.
www.anabaptistchurch.org /anabaptists_today.htm   (1322 words)

  
 Brethren - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ and the Brethren in Christ Church (or River Brethren) owe their origins to the combined labors of Reformed pastor Philip William Otterbein and Mennonite Martin Boehm, beginning in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in the latter half of the 18th century.
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.
The Church of the Lutheran Brethren 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.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Brethren   (772 words)

  
 Schwarzenau Brethren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Schwarzenau (German Baptist) Brethren, originated in Germany, the outcome of one of many Pietistic movements of the 17th century.
In 1913 the Old Brethren withdrew from the Old German Baptist Brethren and the Old Order German Baptist Brethren broke with the OGGB in 1921.
There are several Brethren groups that are not related to the Schwarzenau Brethren movement, such as the Plymouth Brethren that arose in England and Ireland early in the 19th century, and the United Brethren originating in 18th century Pennsylvania with William Otterbein and Martin Boehm.
schwarzenau-brethren.wikiverse.org   (1331 words)

  
 Old Order German Baptist Brethren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Old Order German Baptist Brethren are a small group of Brethren that split from the Old German Baptist Brethren (OGBB) in 1921.
Though similar to the Old German Baptist Brethren in faith and practice, the Old Order German Baptist Brethren represent those who desired to maintain a strict adherence to tradition.
They are called the Old Brethren German Baptist and have under 50 members.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Order_German_Baptist_Brethren   (137 words)

  
 The People Known as Brethren
Because of the persecution, the Brethren, having heard from agents of the state of Pennsylvania encouraging refugees to migrate, began to leave their homeland for other shores and a new opportunity to follow their faith.
The Old Order German Baptist Brethren, consisted of a number of arch-conservative members who, seeing the trends in the church, decided to withdraw from the Fraternity of German Baptist Brethren, as the church was then called.
Since the Brethren held many of the doctrines which fundamentalism espoused, it sided generally with the fundamentalists, although initially the Brethren did not share the spirit of fundamentalism, i.e., its aggressive, if not, militant attitudes towards others and their views.
www.saintjamesbrethrenchurch.org /history/known_as_brethren.htm   (1709 words)

  
 .i n n o c e n t p i x e l s.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The girl shown in the photo is from the Old Order German Baptist Brethren indeed lives a life without the use of modern equipment.
The old German Baptist Brethren, (OGGB), originate from a pietist movement in Germany.
Some Brethren groups have been known to break away from the original group, such as those who recently started the use of automobiles.
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 BRETHREN
Dunker is a direct derivation of the German tunken, `to dip or immerse,' and is identified with the peculiar method of immersion employed by this group of churches--triple immersion--in which the believer is immersed not once but three times, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
It might be said generally that these Dunkers, or Brethren, are former German Reformed bodies which took their theology and much of their practice from the Pietists of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Some of the Brethren distinctives are foot washing, plainness of dress and the disavowal of worldly fashions, head coverings on women, anointing the sick, eschewing worldly amusements, refusing to take oaths, pacifism and refusal to go to war.
www.wayoflife.org /fbns/brethren.htm   (1648 words)

  
 Kansas and Kansans p. 1009-1015
The first church of the Brethren in Kansas was built on Washington Creek, southwest of Lawrence, in 1858, although services had been held earlier near the present Town of Dunlap.
The Ultra-Conservatives called themselves the Old Order German Baptist Brethren, accepting also the designation Dunkard; the Conservatives likewise retained the name German Baptist Brethren, but became the Church of the Brethren in 1908; the Radicals, often called Progressive Brethren, are legally known as the Brethren.
The Church of the Brethren in 1916 had 4,824 members in Kansas, the northeastern and southwestern parts of the state showing the largest membership.
skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/kansas/genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/1009.html   (2645 words)

  
 German Baptists
The German Baptist Brethren, not to be confused with the Plymouth Brethren, began as a small movement in Schwarzenau, Germany, during the early 1700s.
Due to persecution in Europe, all of the German Baptist Brethren emigrated to the United States during the eighteenth century in two main groups—one in 1719 and another in 1729.
Brethren travel from all over the country to attend their annual meetings, which provide wonderful times of fellowship for them.
www.scrollpublishing.com /store/Brethren.html   (329 words)

  
 Davy Documentation - Genealogy Notes for Henry Dorsey Davy
Being of a pleasant countenance, he could order a brother to take his seat, or inform him he was out of order without and danger of giving offence.
His closing remark was, "Brethren, I will be with you." The year 1882 developed a three-way split in the Church: The Old Order German Baptist Brethren, The German Baptist Brethren, and the Progressive Brethren Church.
During the first part of the Civil War, Davy and two other Brethren were sent as a committee to visit the US president and secretary of the War Department in the interest of nonresistant Brethren.
www.retracing-our-family-legacy.com /notes_davy_henry.html   (1195 words)

  
 Church of the Brethren - Dunkards
This term was applied to the members of the Church of the Brethren in the late 19th century and early 20th.
The word "Dunker" was acutally a anglicized corruption of the German word, "Tunker," which means "dipper" or immerserer referring to the mode of baptism practiced by this group.
In 1881, the Brethren Church split from the old Church of the Brethren.
www.rootsweb.com /~pasomers/dunk.htm   (528 words)

  
 Who are the German Baptist Brethren?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There are about 11,000 German Baptists across the country, including large populations in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The Old German Baptist Brethren are among several religious sects termed the "plain people" by religious scholars.
Those who wanted to cling to the practices of the early church kept the old ways, including the dress, and became known as the Old German Baptist Brethren.
www.garstfamily.com /ogbb/gbb.html   (432 words)

  
 Brethren, Dunkers, Dunkards
The term Brethren identifies several Christian groups of common origin, at an earlier date frequently called "Dunkers," of which the Church of the Brethren is today the largest.
The Church of the Brethren is one of the historic "peace churches" in the United States.
The Dunker movement was an offshoot of the German Pietist movement of the late 17th century.
www.mb-soft.com /believe/text/brethren.htm   (744 words)

  
 Adherents.com
German Catholics, followed by Catholics in Switzerland and Austria, were in the forefront of this struggle.
"Old Catholic churches in the U.S. are outgrowths of the Old Catholic movement of Europe...
Smaller groups stemming from the Brethren are: Old German Baptist Brethren (1881), Brethren Church (1883), Dunkard Brethren (1926), and Grace Brethren (1939).
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_482.html   (2757 words)

  
 Ketcherside: Pilgrimage of Joy: Chapter 7: The Last Years of Mission Messenger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We stayed in an old, old inn, and the meetings were held in a large room.
I am convinced that our brethren would have settled their differences years ago had it not been for the fact that they were kept apart by professionals.
The brethren used it as a youth camp during the summer, and when September came, they availed themselves of the opportunity of getting together to talk over their problems and recount their victories.
www.unity-in-diversity.org /Books/poj/chap7.html   (20056 words)

  
 Brethren Encyclopedia
A veritable treasure of information about all Brethren denominations tracing their history to the original founding body, who established themselves in 1708 as a new Baptist movement through adult baptism in the Eder River near Schwarzenau, Germany.
Presently, this includes seven Brethren denominations: The Brethren Church, Church of the Brethren, Dunkard Brethren Church, Old German Baptist Brethren, Old Order German Baptist Brethren, Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, and Conservative Grace Brethren Churches International.
Brethren Encyclopedia is not only a tremendous resource of information and heritage, but also a recognized symbol of unity.
www.cob-net.org /be   (249 words)

  
 Brethren Groups
Moravians, Moravian Brethren, Unitas Fratrum or Unity of Brethren
Old German Baptist Brethren (OGBB), representing the more conservative wing as in dress, custom, and worship could not tolerate modern innovations of the Nineteenth century and left the church in 1881.
United Brethren leader Martin Boehm was the spiritual leader of this group until its congregation, principally of Mennonite background, began to withdraw from him because of his liberal views on baptism, and his relationships with non-Mennonite individuals.
www.cob-net.org /docs/groups.htm   (3749 words)

  
 H-Net Review: John A Lapp on On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, ...
On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish and Brethren.
Particularly during the past fifty years there has been a lot of public interest in the Old Orders for their distinctive way of life, with their particular costumes, their own dialects, and their bias toward the rural and traditional technologies.
The Brethren are more open to education than the other groups although the Hutterites are beginning to send some youth to high school.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=25258997463295   (914 words)

  
 Amazon.com: On the Backroad to Heaven : Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren (Center Books in ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Old Orders stress community, obedience and self-denial over individualism; they eschew "consumer consumption" (a rather unforgivably tautological phrase); and they question the value of formal education beyond a certain point, usually the eighth grade.
Kraybill (sociology and Anabaptist studies, Messiah Coll.; The Riddle of Amish Culture) and Bowman (sociology, Bridgewater Coll.; Brethren Society: The Cultural Transformation of a Peculiar People) examine the four major branches of "Old Order" religions in America and discuss their relationship with the larger culture.
It's always the same old thing, they're misunderstood and they want to be left alone(except when they need a phone or van to ride in).
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801865654?v=glance   (2020 words)

  
 History Timeline of the CoB
Brethren migrated from Indiana to the Northwest Territories and settled in Oregon
Church of the Brethren is the new denominational label of the former German Baptism Brethren, officially adopted at it's bicentennial celebration on June 9 at the Des Moines, Iowa, Annual Conference.
Brethren Service Commission acquires campus of former Blue Ridge College at New Windsor, Maryland, establishes a center of operations for world service projects, including a conference center and depot for processing clothing for overseas shipment...
www.churchofthebrethren.org /History%20Timeline%20of%20the%20Cob.htm   (4507 words)

  
 Proclaim Good Tidings 2 (Eller)
This means, first, that the Brethren played a particular role in the historical development of modern evangelism.
I don't know that anyone has seen it until now--but the Church of the Brethren was born as an evangelistic body right in and with the birth of Protestant evangelism itself.
This passage, in turn, was enough to trigger a newsletter-writing Brethren pastor to complain that the suggestion of inviting unbelievers to the Lord's table is rank heresy and that, consequently, Arias' is a bad book.
www.hccentral.com /eller11/part2.html   (1960 words)

  
 Brethren Society, Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Brethren Groups Basic, non-theological outline of all the religious groups using the word Brethren in their denominational label.
Old German Baptist Brethren Photo essay on the Old German Baptist Brethren.
Members or regular attendees of a Church of the Brethren, Dunkard Brethren, Brethren Church, Old Order German Baptist Brethren, German Baptist Brethren, Grace Brethren and other traditionally Brethren related churches are eligible for insurance.
www.indiapolicyinstitute.org /aW5kXzI4ODM3.aspx   (165 words)

  
 BMH Editor's Blog: May 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Old Order German Baptist Brethren, a sister group to the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, is currently meeting in Pennsylvania.
Grace Brethren people around the country are urged to pray for MacMillan and the Tracy church over the next month, that this unusual visibility will give opportunity for God’s Word to be clearly taught and for the Holy Spirit to reach many with the message of God’s love and forgiveness.
Craig Alan Myers, a Church of the Brethren pastor in Columbia City, Indiana, is the blogmaster for this fine organization, Brethren Revival Fellowship, which seeks to emphasize biblical orthodoxy and the distinctive Brethren ordinances and theology in the Church of the Brethren.
fgbc-world.blogspot.com /2005_05_01_fgbc-world_archive.html   (13377 words)

  
 The Pilgrims of Russian-town 70 Years Later, Stephen Scott
Old Order interest in the Molokan experience is well summed up in a statement of Scott on page seven — "Their experience in an urban environment is especially pertinent to many of us who have not moved to the city but have gradually had the city move to US."
One hundred twenty-one years ago the Wolf Creek Old German Baptist Church was organized as a separate church from the German Baptist Brethren (known after 1908 as Church of the Brethren).
23 Actually, 88 Molokan men were ordered to report to camp, but 11 were reclassified, 8 received medical discharges, 3 enlisted in the military while serving in camp, 5 refused to report to camp because of religious conviction, 3 left the camp for religious reasons, and 46 served until the camps were closed.
www.molokane.org /Old_Order_Notes/Scott.html   (12321 words)

  
 Old German Baptist Brethren Church Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
German Baptists gather outside the meeting house before services.
Bowman is a common Brethren name -- there are about 100 in the Franklin County telephone book alone.
It's one way they keep the world at a distance, where trends and fashions are pride-filled things, something the Old Order is firmly against.
www.garstfamily.com /ogbb/gb6.html   (416 words)

  
 Amish of the Upper Midwest
Generally, all the Amish of the Bluff Country are Old Order Amish: no tractors in the fields, few telephones except at an occasional shop or along a lonely lane; hook-and-eye closures on clothing instead of buttons; small one-room schoolhouses.
Where the Old Order settlements permit belfries on their schoolhouses, the Swartzentruber feel it is too ornamental.
Unlike the Amish who meet for church in their homes, the Mennonites and Old Order German Baptist Brethren build meeting houses and these small plain unadorned buildings can also be seen among the quiet valleys of the Bluff Country.
www.regionalresearch.net /Pages/Amish_SW_WI.html   (518 words)

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