Samuel Purviance to Colonel James Burd, September 20, 1765, quoted in Rothermund, pp. [25] In 2022, the organization would have it would have 109 member denominations in 59 countries, and 1.47 million baptized members in 10,300 churches. The Mennonites, Schwenkfelders, and Quakers quickly collected food and clothing to aid the refugees. Between 1874 and 1880 some 16,000 Mennonites of approximately 45,000 left Russia. 72. 157177; Hershberger, Guy F., War, Peace, and Nonresistance (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1953), pp. [56] A member of this second group, Christopher Dock, authored Pedagogy, the first American monograph on education. We use the label Schwarzenau Brethren to . From 1941 to 1947, 4,665 Mennonites, Amish and Brethren in Christ[70] were among nearly 12,000 conscientious objectors who performed work of national importance in 152 CPS camps throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. 5. Mennonites are groups of Anabaptist Christian church communities of denominations. For the major recent discussions of predominant influences in the formation of the Brethren see Durnbaugh, Donald F., Brethren Beginnings: The Origins of the Church of the Brethren in Early Eighteenth-Century Europe, (unpub. The Holdeman Mennonites do not believe that the use of modern technology is a sin in itself, but they discourage too intensive a use of the Internet and avoid television, cameras and radio. Other significant theological views of the Mennonites developed in opposition to Roman Catholic views or to the views of Protestant reformers such as Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli. The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada wrote that year to the Quebec government to express its concerns[81] about this situation. It is a network of Mennonite and Church of the Brethren communities who are publically affirming of gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual members. These views are analyzed and compared in Durnbaugh, Donald F., The Genius of the Brethren, Brethren Life and Thought, IV (1959), 1:434Google Scholar; 2:418, from which some of the material in this section of the recent article is taken; the journal shall hereafter be cited as B.L.T..