Tradition and Transition: Amish Mennonites and Old Order Amish, 1800-1900

Tradition and Transition: Amish Mennonites and Old Order Amish, 1800-1900
ISBN-10
1579104681
ISBN-13
9781579104689
Category
Religion
Pages
361
Language
English
Published
2000-10-03
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
Paton Yoder

Description

This one hundred year story of the Amish church depicts the survival of the believers in the early part of the nineteenth century. Revealing the agony of the Great Schism of 1865 which fractured the Amish church, Yoder reveals the coming maturity of the Old Order Amish and the Amish Mennonites, who merged with the Mennonites early in the twentieth century. This book sheds light on the identity and heritage of faith and lifestyle of today's Amish and many Mennonites, and posits that although they hold in common the basic Christian faith, differences in their patterns of obedience remain.

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