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The papers collected in this book of essays are an introduction to some of the ways in which Bible and theology have been understood and used within the Brethren movement. The heart of the book is a series of chapters on individuals such as...

Wilson, E, 'Richly rewarding the labourer for his work': Brethren Evangelism in the Australian Colonies, 1860s-1880s'

The chapters in 'The Brethren and the Church' reveal a variety of attitudes and practise, both towards the universal Church and within a local church...

Noted scholar Tim Grass has spent many years researching, surveying and photographing a representative survey of the buildings of the Brethren movement. the book encompasses all parts of Britain and Ireland....

'It is impossible to understand patterns of theological and ecclesiastical change without attention to the cultural context', writes David Bebbington in one of two contextual chapters in this book...

This book makes three bold new claims for Daniel J. Danielsen (1871-1916): 1. He took some of the most famous photographs of the atrocities in the Congo under the rule of King Leopold II of Belgium that were used by writers such as Mark Twain and...

The British Brethren missionaries Ernest and May Trenchard devoted their lives to serving the Church in Spain, planting congregations and forming leaders at a time when much activity in evangelism, teaching, and publishing had to be undertaken clandestinely. Such service came at significant personal cost, and this book explores what it meant to minister in such a context. At a period when it was claimed that Protestantism was merely a foreign import, the Trenchards sought to immerse themselves in local culture so that Brethren congregations would emerge whose ethos was genuinely Spanish. This biography of the couple, using both Spanish and English sources and which has already appeared in Spanish translation, is a detailed exploration of their lives and mission....

Gerald West's study of the Howard family of Tottenham and Ackworth offers an illuminating perspective on how particular religous convictions, once adopted by some family members, can spread throughout and bind the kinship group....