Brethren of the Free Spirit — The Brothers, or Brethren of the Free Spirit (Brüder und Schwestern des Freien Geistes), was a lay Christian movement which flourished in northern Europe in the 13th and 14th Centuries. Antinomian and individualist in outlook, it came into… … Wikipedia
Brethren of the Coast — The Brethren or Brethren of the Coast were a loose coalition of pirates and privateers commonly known as buccaneers and active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. They were a… … Wikipedia
Tight Brethren — is a disparaging term sometimes used to identify Open Brethren assemblies within the Plymouth Brethren movement which hold to a conservative Gospel Hall Brethren policy of reception to fellowship and Lord s Table, in contrast to the more open… … Wikipedia
Open Brethren — The Open Brethren, sometimes called Christian Brethren or Plymouth Brethren , are a group of Protestant Evangelical Christian churches that arose in the late 1820s as part of the Assembly Movement. They originated in England and Ireland and now… … Wikipedia
Gospel Hall Brethren — The assemblies of the Open Brethren movement that generally call their building a Gospel Hall . Sometimes known as Closed Open, Tight Brethren, or Conservative Open Brethren (some of these terms may be considered disparaging). They are sometimes… … Wikipedia
Church of the United Brethren in Christ — For the historic church building near Cincinnati, see United Brethren in Christ (Ohio). The Church of the United Brethren in Christ is an evangelical Christian denomination based in Huntington, Indiana. It is a Protestant denomination of… … Wikipedia
Needed Truth Brethren — Needed Truth Brethren, as they are sometimes known, call themselves, “The Churches of God in the Fellowship of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ . This is their official legal title, however other Christians might classify them as a very… … Wikipedia
Evangelical United Brethren Church — The Evangelical United Brethren Church (EUB) was an American Protestant church which was formed in 1946 by the merger of the Evangelical Church with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ (not to be confused with the current Church of the… … Wikipedia
List of rasa'il in the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity — The following is a list of the rasa il (epistles) which compose the influential Neoplatonic encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity composed by the Brethren of Purity in the tenth century CE in Basra, Iraq.The following… … Wikipedia
Europe, history of — Introduction history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… … Universalium