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From the orphanage of George Muller in the nineteenth century to the biblical scholarship of F. F. Bruce in the twentieth, the Open Brethren in Britain have exercised a profound influence on the practice and piety of worldwide Evangelicalism. Though they have suffered from a measure of scholarly neglect, this has been remedied gradually over the last several decades. In the first comprehensive history of the Brethren to take the new scholarly literature into account, Tim Grass has provided a path-breaking and definitive survey of the movement in Britain that is accessible, scholarly, broad in scope and judicious in judgement. Grass tells the story of the Open Brethren over the...