German Baptist

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Alexander Mack Louis Bauman Conrad Beissel Donald Durnbaugh Christoph Sauer John Whitcomb
Groups
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Extinct Groups
Ephrata Cloister Church of God (New Dunkers)
Also Known As
German Baptists Dunkers
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The German Baptists have roots in Anabaptist theology and practice, generally speaking. German Baptists are not to be confused with Primitive, Separate, Southern, Particular, and all other mainline Baptist denominations who, although generally unified on rudimentary doctrines such as baptism, would have conflicting views in other areas, such as non-resistance, etc. In addition, German Baptists are not to be confused with a recent, small, disjointed, renewal movement of "Plain," "Covered" Baptists, who, for all intents and purposes, have comparable beliefs and practice of the historic German Baptists for the most part (albeit in wide variance), but are of different origins. The German Baptists are not to be confused with various other similar denominations such as the Plymouth Brethren, their respective variants, and the Stone-Campbell Movement, etc.

German Baptist can refer to any one of the following:

• German Baptist Brethren
• Old German Baptist Brethren
• Old Order German Baptist Brethren
• Old Order River Brethren
• Schwarzenau Brethren
• Dunkard Brethren
• Church of the Brethren
• The Brethren Church
• Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches
• Conservative Grace Brethren Churches, International
• Church of God (New Dunkers)

[edit] See also

• Other "Brethren" Groups

[edit] References

• 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
• Handbook of Denominations in the United States (6th edition), by Frank S. Mead, Samuel S. Hill, and Craig D. Atwood
• Profiles in Belief: the Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada, (Google Books, ISBN 0060665807), by Arthur Carl Piepkorn
• Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States (2000), Glenmary Research Center
• A History of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America, (Google Books), by Martin Grove Brumbaugh
• The Dunkers: A Sociological Interpretation, (Google Books), by John Lewis Gillin
• 'German Baptist Brethren' Entry in 1911encyclopedia.org