This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

THIS 24 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Christian Brotherhoods, by Frederick DeLand Leete. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766173437.

1912. The aim of this book is to give in outline an account of men's societies produced by Christian influence, whatever their denominational relations, and with reference to their avowed purposes and results rather than to the distinction of lay or clerical. Partial Contents: first church brotherhoods; ascetics and their societies; Benedict to Cluny; Mendicants; military orders; mystical brotherhoods; Lollards and brothers of the common life; guilds and secret societies; Brothers of Pity; austere and missionary orders; educational brotherhoods; modern Roman lay; early Protestant; Anglican; auxiliary associations; democratic brotherhoods of Britain; interdenominational; recent church brotherhoods; laymen's unions, leagues and clubs; men and Christianity.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e

THIS 20 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Christian Brotherhoods, by Frederick DeLand Leete. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766173437.

The aim of this book is to give in outline an account of men's societies produced by Christian influence, whatever their denominational relations, and with reference to their avowed purposes and results rather than to the distinction of lay or clerical. Partial Contents: first church brotherhoods; ascetics and their societies; Benedict to Cluny; Mendicants; military orders; mystical brotherhoods; Lollards and brothers of the common life; guilds and secret societies; Brothers of Pity; austere and missionary orders; educational brotherhoods; modern Roman lay; early Protestant; Anglican; auxiliary associations; democratic brotherhoods of Britain; interdenominational; recent church brotherhoods; laymen's unions, leagues and clubs; men and Christianity.