Church of the Brethren

The Church of the Brethren ( German Church of the Brethren ) is a large Protestant church in the United States, on the Schwarzenau Brethren in the 18th century resulting in the German Schwarzenau (also called Tunker, English Dunkards ) back. The Schwarzenau Brethren joined the Anabaptist -Mennonite approaches to the ideas of radical Pietism. Your emergence moment was when, under Alexander Mack in 1708 the first Tunker in the Eder were baptized at Schwarzenau. The first communities in America originated around 1723. Until 1908 the Church of the Brethren still called German Baptist Brethren Church.

Characteristic of the Church of the Brethren include believers baptism by full immersion (immersion) is practiced, and deduced from the Sermon on the Mount -violence, as it is also characteristic of the Mennonites. The Church of the Brethren is heavily involved in diaconal. Many members of the Church of the Brethren maintain a relatively simple lifestyle, such as alcohol or tobacco. In addition to the Church of the Brethen there are now other churches such as the Brethren Church or the Dunkard Brethren, who also see themselves as successors of the emigrant to America Tunker. The churches are networked today about the Brethren World Assembly worldwide each other. In 2008, the Brethren World Assembly took place for the first time at birthplace of the movement, in Schwarzenau instead. The Church of the Brethren in 2009 had about 122,000 members in the United States and Puerto Rico. The church is a member of the U.S. National Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches.

The hymn book used in the churches of the Church Hymnal: A Worship Book of 1992 originated in an ecumenical co-operation with North American Mennonites. Appeared in 2005 with Hymnal Supplement a supplementary volume of the Brethren.

The Church of the Brethren is not to be confused with the German Brethren movement, which is referred to in English as the Plymouth Brethren.