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Tradition Institution

The Family International

Christian new religious movement founded by David Berg in 1968 in the United States

Dated from 1968 CE
Also called Family International, TFI, Teens for Christ

Attributed founding

A path that branches,
meets and parts.

Schools and lineages

Overview

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At a glance

Kind: Tradition · Institution
Date: from 1968 CEOn the timeline →
Also called: Family International, TFI, Teens for Christ, The Children of God, Children of God, COG
Evidence: 2 statements on this recordImported 2
Wikidata: Q536890 ↗In 24 Wikipedia languages

What this page is not

Not a list of beliefs everyone in it held, and not a map of adherents.

What this means

A tradition is not a list of beliefs held by everyone in it, and an affiliation recorded on a person is not that person’s belief in every period of their life.

Nothing here is a map of adherents. Where people practised a tradition, and how many, needs a dataset with its own methodology, and this site does not have one — see the atlas for what it does show.

Its recorded date, from 1968 CE, is an inception — a claim about a beginning, usually contested, and never an attestation window.

Attributed founding

Whom the records name as founder

What this means

An attribution, and a contested one in most traditions: it does not mean the tradition began fully formed, nor that later adherents accept the attribution.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

David Berg18 February 1919 CE – 1 October 1994 CE · American leader of Children of God (1920–1994)

Connections

How The Family International connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Place 1

What this means

Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.

Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

is located in Maine state of the United States of America

Sources

Sources and evidence

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How this site reads its sources

2 statements on this record

2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data: Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures: Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms lead image of the Indonesian Wikipedia article

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

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