Timeline for Do any Christian groups sell all their possessions as it seems the Early Church did?
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| Jul 11, 2014 at 7:01 | comment | added | RKG | Thanks @Flimzy, great answer. I'll be sure to check out the link on the Bruderhof, as well as the other suggestions :-) | |
| Jul 11, 2014 at 6:58 | vote | accept | RKG | ||
| Jul 10, 2014 at 17:22 | history | edited | Flimzy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2014 at 16:43 | comment | added | Jesse | @Flimzy at risk of becoming too chatty, I think the rest of the meta.christianity.stackexchange.com/a/3824/30 Caleb shared touches on the denomination issue. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 16:10 | comment | added | Jesse | pt2 again, it's not my goal to appear argumentative - it's just the question is about denominations (assuming the Christian definition unless otherwise stated), and a group that isn't even denominational couldn't fulfill an answer to that. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 16:09 | comment | added | Jesse | A denomination (whether the sites purpose or not) is, by definition, as I pointed out above. To my knowledge, as I've been told, this site being CHRISTIANITY.SE, pertains to Christianity. As the Bruherhof contains mixed denominations (and in some cases, religions) they do not (nor are recognized) as a denomination by its Christian definition. Per Chrisitan definition, Catholics/Protestants/Lutherans/Baptists/etc that practice in giving through donations and fundraisers would be. Taking a lifetime vow of obedience and poverty (per their site) is not the same thing. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 15:59 | comment | added | Caleb | @Jesse This might help you get your head around what's going on around here: meta.christianity.stackexchange.com/a/3824/30 | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 15:55 | comment | added | Caleb | @Jesse That is a completely pointless objection to this answer. Not only does it already make clear how the terms are used in relation to the groups involved, but you don't seem to understand the way the term is used here or in Christianity in general. For the purposes of this site "denomination" is just a convenience moniker for a group of people with similar beliefs and practices that have some relation to eachother on account of those things. | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 15:30 | comment | added | Jesse | the Bruderhof consider themselves "intern-denomintational" per their own site. They don't believe in themselves as a "recognized" denomination, which there itself takes them out of that possibly since a "denomination" by definition is "a recognized autonomous branch of the Christian Church". They (like myself) think denominations are divisional. This question is about denominations, though RKG does say "congregation". | |
| Jul 10, 2014 at 15:15 | history | answered | Flimzy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |