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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 274 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHRISTADELPHIANS (Xpwroi i sXcboi, " See also:brothers of See also:Christ ")  , sometimes also called Thomasites, a community founded in 1848 by See also:John See also:Thomas (1805-1871), who, after studying See also:medicine in See also:London, migrated to See also:Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A . There he at first joined the " Campbellites," but afterwards struck out independently, See also:preaching largely upon the application of See also:Hebrew prophecy and of the See also:Book of See also:Revelation to current and future events . Both in See also:America and in See also:Great See also:Britain he gathered a number of adherents, and formed a community which has extended to several See also:English-speaking countries . It consists of exclusive " ecclesias," with neither See also:ministry nor organization . The members meet on Sundays to " break See also:bread '" and discuss the See also:Bible . Their See also:theology is strongly millenarian, centering in the See also:hope of a See also:world-wide See also:theocracy with its seat at See also:Jerusalem . Holding a See also:doctrine of conditional See also:immortality," they believe that they alone have the true exegesis of Scripture, and that the " faith of Christendom" is" compounded of the fables predicted by See also:Paul." No See also:statistics of the community are published . It probably See also:numbers from two to three thousand members . A monthly See also:magazine, The Christadelphian, is published in See also:Birmingham . See R . See also:Roberts, Dr Thomas, his See also:Life and See also:Work (1884) .

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