ブレザレン教会
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分類 | プロテスタント |
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教派 | アナバプテスト |
体系 | Non-creedal |
組織構造 | 会衆制 with districts that meet together in an Annual Conference |
協力 | The Church of the Brethren, Inc. (ministry and administration), Bethany Theological Seminary, Brethren Benefit Trust (retirement fund), On Earth Peace (peace initiative) |
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 |
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) |
創設者 | Alexander Mack and the Schwarzenau Brethren |
創設日 | 1708 |
創設地 | Schwarzenau, Germany |
親組織 | Schwarzenau Brethren in the United States |
被独立 | Dunkard Brethren (1926) |
会衆数 | 1,047 (2010, United States and Puerto Rico)[1] |
信徒数 | 122,810 (2010, United States) |
介護施設数 | 21 (Fellowship of Brethren Homes) |
援助組織 | Brethren Disaster Ministries, Brethren Service Center, Brethren Volunteer Service, Children's Disaster Services, Heifer International, SERRV International |
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 |
公式サイト | brethren.org |
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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。
脚注
[編集]- ^ “Church directory”. Church of the Brethren. 2011年8月11日時点のオリジナルよりアーカイブ。2010年4月21日閲覧。
関連文献
[編集]- 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