Church of the Brethren| 分類 |
プロテスタント |
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| 教派 |
アナバプテスト |
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| 体系 |
Non-creedal |
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| 組織構造 |
会衆制 with districts that meet together in an Annual Conference |
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| 協力 |
The Church of the Brethren, Inc. (ministry and administration), Bethany Theological Seminary, Brethren Benefit Trust (retirement fund), On Earth Peace (peace initiative) |
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| 提携 |
Brethren World Assembly, Christian Churches Together, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Church World Service, Historic Peace Churches, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, National Council of Churches, 世界教会協議会 |
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| 地域 |
United States (本部) and Puerto Rico, with groups in Brazil; the Dominican Republic; Haiti; Nigeria and Oku, Cameroon; Spain; and South Sudan; also present in Ecuador (United Andean Indian Mission) and India (Church of North India) |
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| 創設者 |
Alexander Mack（英語版） and the Schwarzenau Brethren |
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| 創設日 |
1708 |
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| 創設地 |
Schwarzenau, Germany |
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| 親組織 |
Schwarzenau Brethren in the United States |
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| 被独立 |
Dunkard Brethren (1926) |
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| 会衆数 |
1,047 (2010, United States and Puerto Rico)[1] |
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| 信徒数 |
122,810 (2010, United States) |
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| 介護施設数 |
21 (Fellowship of Brethren Homes) |
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| 援助組織 |
Brethren Disaster Ministries, Brethren Service Center, Brethren Volunteer Service, Children's Disaster Services, Heifer International（英語版）, SERRV International（英語版） |
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| 高等教育施設数 |
6 colleges and universities (Bridgewater College, Elizabethtown College, Juniata College, Manchester College, McPherson College, and University of La Verne), 1 seminary (Bethany Theological Seminary), see also Brethren Colleges Abroad |
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| 公式サイト |
brethren.org |
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| テンプレートを表示 |
ブレザレン教会（ぶれざれんきょうかい、Church of the Brethren）は、1708年、8人によって設立されたアナバプテストの教派。平和主義を唱える歴史的平和教会である。
関連文献
- Brethren Society: The Cultural Transformation of a Peculiar People, Carl F. Bowman (1995) Johns Hopkins University Press
- Brethren Encyclopedia, Vol. I–III, Donald F. Durnbaugh, editor (1983) The Brethren Encyclopedia Inc.
- Brethren Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, Donald F. Durnbaugh and Dale V. Ulrich, editors, Carl Bowman, contributing editor (2006) The Brethren Encyclopedia Inc.
- Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton, editor
- Fruit of the Vine, A History of the Brethren 1708–1995, Donald F. Durnbaugh (1997) Brethren Press
- Handbook of Denominations, by Frank S. Mead, Samuel S. Hill, and Craig D. Atwood
- Portrait of a People: The Church of the Brethren at 300, Carl Desportes Bowman (2008) Brethren Press
- Profiles in Belief: the Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada, by Arthur Carl Piepkorn
- Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States (2000), Glenmary Research Center
- The Believers' Church: The History and Character of Radical Protestantism, Donald F. Durnbaugh (1968) The Macmillan Company
