ブレザレン教会

ブレザレン教会（ぶれざれんきょうかい、Church of the Brethren）は、1708年、8人によって設立されたアナバプテストの教派。平和主義を唱える歴史的平和教会である。

Church of the Brethren

分類	プロテスタント
教派	アナバプテスト
体系	Non-creedal
組織構造	会衆制 with districts that meet together in an Annual Conference
協力	The Church of the Brethren, Inc. (ministry and administration), Bethany Theological Seminary, Brethren Benefit Trust (retirement fund), On Earth Peace (peace initiative)
提携	Brethren World Assembly, Christian Churches Together, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Church World Service, Historic Peace Churches, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, National Council of Churches, 世界教会協議会
地域	United States (本部) and Puerto Rico, with groups in Brazil; the Dominican Republic; Haiti; Nigeria and Oku, Cameroon; Spain; and South Sudan; also present in Ecuador (United Andean Indian Mission) and India (Church of North India)
創設者	Alexander Mack and the Schwarzenau Brethren
創設日	1708
創設地	Schwarzenau, Germany
親組織	Schwarzenau Brethren in the United States
被独立	Dunkard Brethren (1926)
会衆数	1,047 (2010, United States and Puerto Rico)
信徒数	122,810 (2010, United States)
介護施設数	21 (Fellowship of Brethren Homes)
援助組織	Brethren Disaster Ministries, Brethren Service Center, Brethren Volunteer Service, Children's Disaster Services, Heifer International, SERRV International
高等教育施設数	6 colleges and universities (Bridgewater College, Elizabethtown College, Juniata College, Manchester College, McPherson College, and University of La Verne), 1 seminary (Bethany Theological Seminary), see also Brethren Colleges Abroad
公式サイト	brethren.org

関連文献

• Brethren Society: The Cultural Transformation of a Peculiar People, Carl F. Bowman (1995) Johns Hopkins University Press
• 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
• Fruit of the Vine, A History of the Brethren 1708–1995, Donald F. Durnbaugh (1997) Brethren Press
• Handbook of Denominations, by Frank S. Mead, Samuel S. Hill, and Craig D. Atwood
• Portrait of a People: The Church of the Brethren at 300, Carl Desportes Bowman (2008) Brethren Press
• Profiles in Belief: the Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada, by Arthur Carl Piepkorn
• Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States (2000), Glenmary Research Center
• The Believers' Church: The History and Character of Radical Protestantism, Donald F. Durnbaugh (1968) The Macmillan Company

外部リンク

• 公式ウェブサイト
• ブレザレン教会 - Curlie（英語）
• Church of the Brethren at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
• Bethany Theological Seminary (Church of the Brethren Theological Seminary in Indiana, America)
• Church of the Brethren at Association of Religious Data Archives