While “the doctrine of the secret rapture of believers . . . as now taught . . . was certainly not part of the earliest Brethren thinking on prophetic matters,”1 it soon became so in both branches of the Brethren Movement through the teachings of John Nelson Darby who...
A first gathering of believers along the lines that have marked the Brethren Movement from the very beginning, occurred in Ireland, in the winter of 1827-1828. This “first meeting of “the Brethren” was held in Fitzwilliam Square,”1 in the city of Dublin, Ireland....
In its maturing development, the “Brethren Movement,” with which many of our readers identify, was Biblicist and dispensational in its theology. It took its cue from the Scriptures itself, as opposed to Calvinism or other such man-made systems. Its driving force was...