Editing Bruderhof Communities (section)

==Beliefs and practice==
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The Bruderhof is an evangelical [[Anabaptism|Anabaptist]] community that seeks to emulate the practices of [[early Christianity]].<ref name="KraybillHostetter2001">{{cite book |last1=Kraybill |first1=Donald B. |last2=Hostetter |first2=C. Nelson |title=Anabaptist World USA |date=2001 |publisher=Herald Press |isbn=978-0836191639 |language=English |quote=e Bruderhof Communities, a separate Anabaptist communal group that has had various relationships with the Hutterites, is also included in this chapter.}}</ref><ref name="LarsenNollLedger-Lomas2017">{{cite book |last1=Larsen |first1=Timothy |last2=Noll |first2=Mark A. |last3=Ledger-Lomas |first3=Michael |title=The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions |date=2017 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0199683710 |page=xi |language=English |quote=...research for a book on the Bruderhof (Anabaptist) community.}}</ref> Eberhard Arnold drew inspiration from a number of historical streams, including [[early Christianity]], the Anabaptists, German [[Pietism]] and the [[German Youth Movement]]. [[Johann Blumhardt]] (1805–1880) and his son [[Christoph Blumhardt]] (1842–1919), both German [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] theologians, are important sources of Bruderhof piety.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bruderhof.com/en/our-faith/foundations/heritage/guides|title=Guides|website=Bruderhof|access-date=November 24, 2016}}</ref>

The Bruderhof practice [[Christian pacifism]] and therefore reject the practice of military conscription, reflecting the early Anabaptist beliefs formulated in the [[Schleitheim Confession]].<ref name="JonesRandall2008">{{cite book|last1=Jones|first1=Keith G.|last2=Randall|first2=Ian M.|title=Counter-Cultural Communities: Baptistic Life in Twentieth-Century Europe|date=2008|publisher=Wipf & Stock Publishers|isbn=978-1606083161|page=310|quote=Through this action, the Bruderhof remained faithful to the early Anabaptist beliefs as described in The Schleitheim Confession, in particular through the refusal to accept obligatory military service in accordance with the confession's statement that 'the rule of the government is according to the flesh, that of the Christians according to Spirit'.}}</ref>

Bruderhof members do not hold private property, but rather share everything.<ref>{{Citation|author=Bruderhof|title=What is the Bruderhof?|date=October 29, 2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ohC8cEcdOE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/9ohC8cEcdOE |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=May 26, 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Members work inside the Bruderhof, and nobody receives a salary or has a bank account. Income from all businesses is pooled and used for the care of all members and for various communal outreach efforts.<ref>The Bruderhof: ''Foundations of our Faith & Calling''; The Bruderhof; The Plough Publishing House, Rifton, New York 2012.</ref> Every member of the organization must take a vow that he or she is willing "to put yourself completely at the disposal of the church community to the end of your life – all your faculties, the entire strength of your body and soul, and all your property, both that which you now possess and that which you may later inherit or earn."<ref>[https://www.bruderhof.com/en/our-faith/foundations/church-order/our-vows Bruderhof website].</ref>

The Bruderhof practices believers' baptism, which does not equate to membership. Membership is lifetime and by vows after the age of 21.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Foundations of our Faith and Calling|publisher=Plough|year=2014|isbn=978-0874868883|pages=29, 50|quote=In obedience to this commission, the church community offers baptism to every person who believes in the gospel of Jesus Christ and whose repentance comes from the heart, bearing fruit in deeds. In order to receive believer's baptism as instituted by Christ for the forgiveness of sins, a person must have reached the age of accountability.}}</ref> The Bruderhof also practices what they would call "The law of love" based on the house rule of the first Bruderhof in 1925:

{{Block quote|text=It is therefore out of the question for someone in our community to hold something against a brother or sister or to talk behind his or her back. Relationships within and to the church community are spiritual bonds based on trust and on the readiness to forgive again and again.|sign=|source=''Foundations of our Faith and Calling''}}

The Bruderhof believes marriage to be "the lifelong union between one man and one woman" and believes that sexual love should only be shared in such a marriage relationship.  They believe divorce and remarriage to be wrong.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Foundations of our Faith and Calling|publisher=Plough|year=2014|isbn=978-0874868883|pages=58–61}}</ref> It has supported and run marriage events to promote marriage between one man and one woman both in the United States and the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eden.co.uk/blog/marriage-event-will-be-live-streamed-p1380|title=Marriage event in London|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> The Bruderhof also participated in Humanum, a conference held in the Vatican from 17 to 19 November 2014 and attended by [[Pope Francis]], to discuss the complementarity of man and woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.faith.org.uk/article/man-woman-and-family-convergence-among-faiths|title=Man, Woman and Family: Convergence Among Faiths|access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref>

In accordance with the Anabaptist doctrine of [[nonconformity to the world]], the Bruderhof wear [[plain dress]], with women donning a [[Christian headcovering|headcovering]] (typically a [[hanging veil]]) in accordance with [[1 Corinthians 11]] in the [[Christian Bible]].<ref name="Bronner2015">{{cite book|last=Bronner|first=Simon J|title=Encyclopedia of American Folklife|date=March 4, 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1317471950|page=492}}</ref>