The Open Brethren: A Christian Sect in the Modern World

ISBN-13: 9783030032180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 194 str.

Peter Herriot

Recenzje

"It is written in a pleasantly readable style, and the reader is left with a clear-cut picture of a fundamentalist sect that is frequently hidden from view in our contemporary, global society." (Joonhwa Cho, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, March 2, 2020)
"Herriot describes what life is like within the tight Open Brethren, including in the discussion conversion, service, opposition to political activity, and the role of women in the church. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (W. T. Lindley, Choice, Vol. 56 (11), July, 2019)

Spis treści

Glossary

Introduction

                                 Part 1: Perspectives

Chapter 1. The Tight Brother’s Tale

Chapter 2. The Loose Brother’s Tale

Chapter 3. The Historian’s Tale

Chapter 4. The Psychologist’s Tale

Chapter 5. Brethren Lives

Chapter 6. Salvation and Service

                       Part 2: Authority

Chapter 7. Conformity and Belief

Chapter 8. Authority in Action

Chapter 9. The Authority of the Bible

Chapter 10. The Authority of the Brother

                                  Part 3: Separation

Chapter 11. Separation and Identity

Chapter 12. Pure from the World

Chapter 13. Separated from the Sects

Chapter 14. Apart from the Apostates

                                  Part 4: Fundamentalism 

Chapter 15. An Archetypal Fundamentalism

Chapter 16. The Brethren and Modernism       

Chapter 17. Fundamentalism and Christianity

Chapter 18. Religion and Globalisation

O autorze

Peter Herriot, who was brought up in a Brethren family, was Professor of Psychology at the City University and at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has since written on fundamentalism from a social psychological perspective. Among his books are ‘Religious Fundamentalism: Global, Local, and Personal’ (2009) and ‘Warfare and Waves: Calvinists and Charismatics in the Church of England’ (2017).

Blurb

This book gives a personal insight into the hearts and minds of a fundamentalist Christian sect, the Open Brethren. Using Brethren magazine articles, obituaries, and testimonies, Peter Herriot argues that the Brethren constitute a perfect example of a fundamentalism. Their culture is entirely opposed to the beliefs, values, and norms of modernity. As a result, like other fundamentalisms they challenge modern Christianity and impede its efforts to engage with global society.