单词 | the unity of the brethren |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Unity of the (Moravian) Brethren P2. Christian Church. the Unity of the (Moravian) Brethren [compare post-classical Latin unitas fratrum unity of the brethren (4th or 5th cent. in Augustine; 1652 or earlier as the name of a sect)] : (originally) a Hussite sect, founded in the 15th cent., which was based primarily in Moravia and Bohemia; (subsequently) a Protestant Church founded in 1722 in Saxony by the remaining members of this sect; the Moravians (Moravian n.1 2), the United Brethren (United Brethren n. at united adj. and n. Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Moravianism > [noun] > person > collective the Unity of the (Moravian) Brethrena1640 United Brethren1657 a1640 J. Paget Def. Church Govt. (1641) 228 The Combination of the Christian and Orthodox Churches in Bohemia and Moravia, called by themselves, The Vnitie of the brethren in Bohemie. 1743 tr. A. Gradin Short Hist. Bohemian-Moravian Protestant Church v. 13 These all began with one Accord to call one another..Brethren and Sisters, and the whole Congregation was called The Unity of the Brethren. 1780 B. La Trobe tr. D. Cranz Anc. & Mod. Hist. Brethren 67 Twenty-four ministers of the Unity of the Brethren. 1857 Ode Four Hundredth Anniv. Church Unitas Fratrum 3 The Hymns marked with an asterisk..were composed in the early part of the 16th century, by servants of the Ancient Unity of the Brethren. 1901 W. Cowan & J. Love Music Church Hymnary & Psalter in Metre ii. 226 [He] succeeded his father as Secretary of the Unity of the Moravian Brethren in England. 1994 F. Kavka in R. Scribner et al. Reformation in National Context viii. 142 The originality of Lutheran doctrine had been considerably anticipated by the Unity of the Brethren. < as lemmas |
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