The Open Brethren: A Christian Sect in the Modern World

This book gives a personal insight into the hearts and minds of a fundamentalist Christian sect, the Open Brethren. Using Brethren magazine articles, obituaries, and testimonies, Peter Herriot argues that the Brethren constitute a perfect example of a fundamentalism. Their culture is entirely oppose...

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1. Verfasser: Herriot, Peter (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
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ISBN:9783030032197
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Chapter 1. The Tight Brother's Tale
  • Chapter 2. The Loose Brother's Tale
  • Chapter 3. The Historian's Tale
  • Chapter 4. The Psychologist's Tale
  • Chapter 5. Brethren Lives
  • Chapter 6. Salvation and Service
  • Chapter 7. Conformity and Belief
  • Chapter 8. Authority in Action
  • Chapter 9. The Authority of the Bible
  • Chapter 10: The Authority of the Brother
  • Chapter 11. Separation and Identity
  • Chapter 12. Pure from the World
  • Chapter 13. Separated from the Sects
  • Chapter 14. Apart from the Apostates
  • Chapter 15. An Archetypal Fundamentalism
  • Chapter 16. The Brethren and Modernism
  • Chapter 17. Fundamentalism and Christianity
  • Chapter 18. Religion and Globalisation.