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Conrad Beissel

Schwarzenau Brethren (the German Baptists or Dunkers)
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Background
Christianity Protestantism Anabaptism Radical Pietism Radical Reformation
Doctrinal tenets
Non-creedalism Trine baptism Love feast Feet washing Holy kiss Free church Anointing with oil Non-resistance Pacifism The Brethren Card
People
Alexander Mack Shantilal Bhagat Louis Bauman Conrad Beissel Donald F. Durnbaugh Vernard Eller Samuel Kinsey John Kline Peter Nead Christoph Sauer
Groups
Brethren Church Church of the Brethren Conservative Grace Brethren Dunkard Brethren Grace Brethren Old Brethren Old Brethren German Baptist Old German Baptist Brethren Old German Baptist Brethren, New Conference Old Order German Baptist Brethren Defunct groups Ephrata Cloister Church of God (New Dunkers)
Related movements
Amish Bruderhof Community of True Inspiration Hutterites Mennonites River Brethren Quakers
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Johann Conrad Beissel (March 1, 1691 – July 6, 1768) was a German-born religious leader who in 1732 founded the Ephrata Community in the Province of Pennsylvania.^[1]

^ For the correct date of his birth see Alderfer, Everett Gordon: The Ephrata Commune, Pittsburgh, 1985, p. 14, 219.

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