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- noun Plural form of
Schwenkfelder .
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More cautious still were the Schwenkfelders, “the most apolitical and literalistic of the German Pietist sects.”
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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More cautious still were the Schwenkfelders, “the most apolitical and literalistic of the German Pietist sects.”
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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Schwenkfelders, followers of Casper Schofield, came to Pennsylvania and settled along the Perkiomen, in Montgomery County.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Schwenkfelders (adherents of Kaspar von Schwenkfeld) a home in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Schwenkfelders, the Amish — kept coming and bringing with them their traditions, their customs, their sacred books, their timid and pathetic disposition to hide by themselves, sometimes in quasi-monastic communities like that at Ephrata, sometimes in actual hermitage, as in the ravines of the Wissahickon.
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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Schwenkfelders, the Amish -- kept coming and bringing with them their traditions, their customs, their sacred books, their timid and pathetic disposition to hide by themselves, sometimes in quasi-monastic communities like that at Ephrata, sometimes in actual hermitage, as in the ravines of the Wissahickon.
A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868
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Sunday: Day of Remembrance service, celebrating Schwenkfelders 'arrival in Philadelphia in
Berks county news 2009
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