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Hutterian Brethren

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Hutterian Brethren (hətēr`ēən), a body of Christians practicing strict communism based on religious principles. The Brethren are descendants of those Moravian Anabaptists Anabaptists [Gr.,=rebaptizers], name applied, originally in scorn, to certain Protestant sects holding that infant baptism is not authorized in Scripture and that baptism should be administered to believers only.
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 who were followers of Jacob Hutter, a minister from the Tyrol who was burned at the stake in 1536. In the 17th cent. there were a number of Hutterian brotherhoods in Moravia. Persecution drove them eastward to eventual settlement in Russia. In 1874, in company with Russian Mennonites, a group emigrated to the United States, settling near Tabor, S.Dak. Other groups followed. Their doctrines and principles, aside from their practice of common ownership, are in accord with those of Mennonites Mennonites , descendants of the Dutch and Swiss evangelical Anabaptists of the 16th cent. Beliefs and Membership


While each congregation is at liberty to decide independently on its form of worship and other matters, Mennonites generally agree on
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 in general. There are around 460 Hutterite colonies in the United States and Canada today, mainly on the W North American prairie. They are also known as Hutterische Brethren or Hutterites.

Bibliography

See studies by V. Peters (1965), J. W. Bennett (1967), and J. A. Hostelter (1975).



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