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Bohemian Brethren

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Bohemian Brethren
n.
A religious society organized in the 15th century by the Hussites.

Bohemian Brethren
pl n
(Christian Churches, other) a Protestant Christian sect formed in the 15th century from various Hussite groups, which rejected oaths and military service and advocated a pure and disciplined spiritual life. It was reorganized in 1722 as the Moravian Church Also called Unitas Fratrem [ˈjuːnɪtæs ˈfrætrɛm]


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Applying what he calls the "Bohemian formula"--the approach to doctrine of the early Bohemian Brethren, here characterized as "in essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity"--to both religious traditions, he argues that Christians and Muslims can find unity in modestly admitting ignorance in their knowledge of God, proximity in faith, and difference in their presentation of Jesus.
Recorded: 1-12/1996, Hall of the Community of the Bohemian Brethren in Prague-Kobylisy.
Recorded: 9/2005, the Church of the Bohemian Brethren, Nymburk.
 
 
 
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