单词 | river brethren |
释义 | > as lemmasRiver Brethren River Brethren n. U.S. members of any of several Christian groups originating around 1770 among German settlers on the Susquehanna river in Pennsylvania, characterized particularly by the performance of baptisms only in rivers. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > River Brethren > [noun] River Brethren1849 1849 Hist. All Relig. Denominations U.S. 554 The River Brethren recognize three orders of clergy: Bishops, Elders, and Deacons. 1854 J. Belcher Relig. Denominations U.S. 919 Others were organized into a body called, The River Brethren, partly from the locality in which they were first found, near the Susquehanna, and Conestoga, and chiefly from their baptisms being celebrated only in rivers. 1951 H. Giles Harbin's Ridge xxiii. 202 And they baptized different, too. Face forward in the water, three times. In the early days, back in Pennsylvania, they'd been named the River Brethren on account of it, I'd heard. 2001 M. C. Reynolds Plain Women 5 River Brethren descendants perpetuated the memory of this experience in the belief system itself, creating a sense of ethnic identification based on lineage, national origin, and shared faith. < as lemmas |
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