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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 180
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 178. Chapters: British Israelism, Baptism, Eastern Orthodox Church, Filioque, East-West Schism, Creationism, Theoria, Apostasy in Christianity, Lutheranism, Trinity, Diocletianic Persecution, New Testament, Methodism, Restoration Movement, Immersion baptism, Christian mortalism, Apostolic succession. Excerpt: British Israelism (also called Anglo-Israelism) is a doctrine based on the hypothesis that people of Western European descent, particularly those in Great Britain, are the direct lineal descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. The doctrine often includes the tenet that the British Royal Family is directly descended from the line of King David. The central tenets of British Israelism have been thoroughly refuted by evidence from modern genetic, linguistic, archaeological and philological research (see Research Findings below). The doctrine continues, however, to have a significant number of adherents. The movement has never had a head organisation or a centralized structure. Various British Israelite organisations were set up across the British Commonwealth and in America from the 1870s; a small number of such organisations are active today. The theory of British Israelism arose in England, from where it spread to the United States. Although British-Israelists will cite various ancient manuscripts to claim an ancient origin for British Israelism, the belief appears to have gained momentum since the English Revolution of the 17th century. It increased during the "Christian Restorationism" movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Title page of Richard Brothers's book A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophesies and Times, from 1795. One of the first published accounts of the theory of an Israelite genealogy of the British was The Rights of the Kingdom by John Sadler, published in 1649. But, it was only in the late...