The Open Brethren: A Christian Sect in the Modern World

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Herriot, Peter (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Religion and sociology.; Psychology and religion.; Religion and Society.; Religion and Psychology.; Sociology of Religion.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.