Plymouth Brethren
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Sep 24, 2026
David WolinHOST
His great hymn had not yet been written.
David WolinHOST
He went on to become a London merchant and devoted himself to open-air preaching with the Plymouth Brethren for 73 years.
David WolinHOST
He even helped with the outreaches of D.L. Moody and Ira Sankey in England in 1875, which is the same time he wrote the words of what is by far his most famous hymn.
David WolinHOST
Now, as a merchant, he had the privilege of often traveling around the world by ship.
Jay DyerHOST
But it really goes along with what we call dispensationalism.
Jay DyerHOST
And dispensationalism is a heresy that pops up in the late 1800s, promoted by a guy who split from the Church of England and was part of a domination called the Plymouth Brethren.
Jay DyerHOST
And his name was John Nelson Darby.
Jay DyerHOST
And Darby came up with this idea of kind of charting out the history of prophecy and coming up with these different divisions in church history and that god had different plans and ways to save people in different ways so in the old testament you'd be saved with certain types of works but now that jesus came it's all about grace and there's grace as a set in attention against works and now we can be saved in a different way but then when jesus comes back there'll be a new temple and he'll reinstitute animal sacrifices and we'll get a thousand year reign of jesus in israel and all of this sort of ridiculous nonsense which is not true.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
Originally an Anglican priest in Ireland, he eventually grew disillusioned with the church and resigned his position.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
In the 1820s and 30s, he became associated with a Christian movement called the Plymouth Brethren, named for the fact that one of their largest congregations was based in the port city of Plymouth in southwest England.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
The Plymouth Brethren were a group of anti-establishment Christians who rejected professional clergy, were very critical of established churches like the Church of England, and claimed to read the Bible literally.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
Now to say that Darby invented dispensationalism in general, and the rapture specifically, is probably an overstatement.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
The concept of dispensations predates Darby, and at the time, premillennialism was already an idea held by some Anglican Christians in English and Irish intellectual circles, though more on the margins of those intellectual circles.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
Like later formulations, Darby believed that we are living in the second to last dispensation, the age of the church.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
But even this dispensation is headed for ruin.
Andrew M. HenryHOST
Like other Plymouth Brethren, he thought that most established churches in this era have fallen into apostasy.
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
I did my doctorate at Manchester University on John Nelson Darby with no pre-agenda.
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
I wasn't raised in the Plymouth Brethren.
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
I knew hardly anything about him.
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
And...
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
I did my doctorate at Manchester University on John Nelson Darby with no pre-agenda.
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
I wasn't raised in the Plymouth Brethren.
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
I knew hardly anything about him.
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
And...
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
I did my doctorate at Manchester University on John Nelson Darby with no pre-agenda.
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
I wasn't raised in the Plymouth Brethren.
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
I knew hardly anything about him.
Paul WilkinsonGUEST
And...
Samira AhmedCORRESPONDENT
Many of the characters in this book are real book lovers.
Samira AhmedCORRESPONDENT
And some, I mean, two in particular, partly because of their shared upbringing in the Plymouth Brethren, which is, you know, a sect where they were denied most books.
Samira AhmedCORRESPONDENT
And I wonder, was that your own experience growing up in New Zealand?
Meg MasonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, the sect that Sophie grew up in isn't named.
Philip ClarkHOST
The Home Affairs Minister, Tony Burke, was busy on another score today.
Philip ClarkHOST
He stood up in Parliament to table a document apparently showing that Plymouth Brethren, that's a religious group in Australia, have connections to the Liberals and that they arrange for intimidation of Labor and other candidates during last year's election campaign.
Philip ClarkHOST
Members of the religious group will be brought before the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters.
Philip ClarkHOST
Now, the allegations include that they paid agitators to track the Prime Minister and to harass and disrupt Labor, Greens and Independents during the 25 election campaign.
Tony BurkeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Every member of parliament who hears that should say, this is not what Australian democracy is meant to be about.
Philip ClarkHOST
Yes, the Tony Burke there getting pretty fired up in question time.
Philip ClarkHOST
Jack, is there an issue here? It does seem on the surface that evidence that the Plymouth Brethren was involved and involved closely with the federal opposition is of concern.
Jack QuayleGUEST
These allegations that the Electoral Committee, Parliament's Electoral Matters Committee have heard have been extremely damning and, you know...
William RamseyGUEST
Well, I mean, it goes back to his upbringing, his birth, and what he was interested in and what he wanted to do.
William RamseyGUEST
I think he was brought up in a very rigid Christian sect called the Plymouth Brethren, which is a subset of like an extreme.
William RamseyGUEST
They were the exclusive brethren, which is a subset of the Plymouth Brethren, which he rebelled against.
William RamseyGUEST
And he really wanted to make his own religion.
William RamseyGUEST
And he basically put it together through his research into the occultism, into Golden Dawn.
36 MINS LATER
ThomasHOST
is just the way that Crowley related to the idea of being satanic, being Satan's chief of staff, as he said at one point.
ThomasHOST
Just because with a lot of occultists, you kind of get the sense that they're in some way knowingly interacting with what they consider to be demonic entities, but they've got a very distorted view of reality, that they really are trying to replace the kind of Christian framework, Christ and Satan, good and evil, with something more blurry and, you know, Gnostic or pagan or something like that.
ThomasHOST
But, you know, Crowley, you know, like really is kind of the worst in as much as he is worse than that in as much as he is saying that he never really rejected the, you know, the theology of his upbringing when he's like talking back about the Plymouth Brethren.
William RamseyGUEST
He had a sister who died very young, but he was in a family that was part of.
William RamseyGUEST
The Plymouth Brethren, they were a subset, a more religious Christian subset called the Exclusive Brethren.
William RamseyGUEST
So they were kind of a, I would think of them as kind of a snobby, set-aside kind of Christian sect.
William RamseyGUEST
And he was sent to Christian schools.
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