The Amish Way (36 page)
Authors: Donald B. Kraybill,Steven M. Nolt,David L. Weaver-Zercher
Deacon: as charity overseer; role of
Death: beliefs about; forgiveness for accidental; funerals and; God’s providence in; grieving; at home; last rite prior to; life support and; mutual aid in; in nature
De-electrification: church requirement for; costs of
See also
Electricity
See also
Electricity
Depression: rates of; singing as antidote to
“Desiderata,”
Deuteronomy: 5:32
Developmental disability
Diary,The
Die Botshaft
Die Ernsthafte Christenpflicht. See Christenpflicht, Die Ernsthafte
“
Die Kinder Zucht
” (“The Upbringing of the Child”)
Die Kinder Zucht
” (“The Upbringing of the Child”)
Directories, church
Disabilities: attitudes toward; children with developmental; flexibility in rules for people with
Disciplinary procedures: for adults; for children
See also
Church discipline;
Ordnung
See also
Church discipline;
Ordnung
Dishwashers
Disobedience: costs of; evil and; procedures addressing
District.
See Gmay
See Gmay
Divorce
Domestic violence
Dordrecht Confession of Faith (“Eighteen Articles”); contents of; as a distinguishing Amish text; excommunication and; on footwashing; on nonresistance; review of, prior to baptism; on separation from the world; versions and sources of
Dress.
See
Clothing
See
Clothing
Drug abuse
Dying, last rite in
See also
Death
See also
Death
Easter
Education: in Amish schools; eighth-grade cap on; informal religious; limited options for; state legal challenge to; U.S. Supreme Court case on
See also
Schools
See also
Schools
“Eighteen Articles.”
See
Dordrecht Confession of Faith
See
Dordrecht Confession of Faith
Elderly care
Electricity: alternatives to; de-electrification and; fragmentation peril of; nature and; prohibition against; for special needs
Emergency medical units
Energy sources, alternative
See also
Electricity
See also
Electricity
English, the.
See
Mainstream society; Outsiders
See
Mainstream society; Outsiders
Ephesians: 4:29
Epiphany
Esh, M.
Ethnic diversity
Evangelism
Evil; Amish responses to; Christian debate over; of city life; forgiveness and; God’s providence and; judgment and; problem of; roots of; of the world
Evolutionary theory
Example, teaching by: for children; of
Ordnung
;
versus
verbal evangelism
Ordnung
;
versus
verbal evangelism
Excommunication: for attending college; Dordrecht Confession and; parental attitudes toward; return from; shunning after; for unpardoned
Ordnung
violations
Ordnung
violations
Exodus 20:4
Ezekiel 3:18
Face pictures, taboo on
Factory work
Families: domestic violence in; employment and; extended nature of; fathers as leaders of; financial responsibility of; gender roles in; in
Gmays
; life of; nature and; prayer and scriptural reading in; shunning within; singing in; size of; Sunday routines of; as Sunday worship hosts
See also
Children
Gmays
; life of; nature and; prayer and scriptural reading in; shunning within; singing in; size of; Sunday routines of; as Sunday worship hosts
See also
Children
Family Life
“Family That Accepts Death” vignette
Farmers’ markets
Farming; organic/sustainable
Fasting
Fishing
Footwashing
Forgiveness: of assailants; for fatal car accidents; in order to be forgiven; outsiders’ reactions to; pardon
versus
; of persecutors; prior to communion; “Rules of a Godly Life” on; as a struggle
versus
; of persecutors; prior to communion; “Rules of a Godly Life” on; as a struggle
Fragmentation threat: of cars; of electricity
Freedom of choice: benefits of giving up; costs of giving up; to join the church
Freedom of religion
Frugality
Fundraising
Funerals
Galatians 6
Games and sports
Garden of Eden
Gardens
Gelassenheit:
in response to death; in response to evil; silence and; simple lifestyle and; spirit of; in worship
See also
God’s will and providence
in response to death; in response to evil; silence and; simple lifestyle and; spirit of; in worship
See also
God’s will and providence
Gender: roles; seating according to
Generational intermingling
Genesis
Geographical proximity
German language use: in funerals; in hymns; in songs; in Sunday worship services
Giving up
(uffgevva):
to achieve harmony for communion; to being selected as a minister; children’s training in; to community; defined; of dress preferences; forgiveness and; in preaching; of self; sin and; struggle of
See also Gelassenheit
(uffgevva):
to achieve harmony for communion; to being selected as a minister; children’s training in; to community; defined; of dress preferences; forgiveness and; in preaching; of self; sin and; struggle of
See also Gelassenheit
Gmay
(church district): children in; composition and size of; decision to join; definition of; disciplinary procedures of; ensuring harmony in; excommunication from; gender roles in; intergenerational relationships in; joining the; lack of privacy in; leaders of; material possessions and; mutual aid in;
Ordnung
of; shopping and services within; variations among; weddings in; worship in
(church district): children in; composition and size of; decision to join; definition of; disciplinary procedures of; ensuring harmony in; excommunication from; gender roles in; intergenerational relationships in; joining the; lack of privacy in; leaders of; material possessions and; mutual aid in;
Ordnung
of; shopping and services within; variations among; weddings in; worship in
God: forgiveness of; judgment of; Kingdom of; love of; nature and; triune
“God Is Love” (“
Gott ist die Liebe
”)
Gott ist die Liebe
”)
God’s will and providence: death and; evil and; illness and; in nature; nonresistance and; and reliance on
Ordnung
; silence and; suffering and; surrender to
See also Gelassenheit
Ordnung
; silence and; suffering and; surrender to
See also Gelassenheit
Golden Rule
Good Friday
“
Gott ist die Liebe
” (“God Is Love”)
Gott ist die Liebe
” (“God Is Love”)
Government, Amish relationships with
Grace: Amish
versus
non-Amish views of; obedience and
versus
non-Amish views of; obedience and
Grandchildren
Grandparents:
Dawdyhauses
for; presence of
Dawdyhauses
for; presence of
“Green” Amish
Green Field Farms
Gregorian chant
Grieving
Grudges
Habits, practice and
Habits of the Heart
(Bellah)
(Bellah)
Happenings of the Bible
Harmony, ensuring, for communion
Harmony singing
Health care: insurance prohibitions; mutual aid and
See also
Illness;
Medical headings
See also
Illness;
Medical headings
Hearse
Heartland Hymns
“Heaven’s Special Child,”
Hebrews; 12:11
Herbal remedies
Hero, Western ideal of
Hiking
History: of the Amish; Amish respect for; of Anabaptists
Hobbies
Holmes County, Ohio
Holy Communion Sunday
See also
Communion
See also
Communion
Holy kiss
Homeopathy
“Homespun Scholar” vignette
Horses
Hospice
Hospitalization
Hostetler, J. A.
Hugging
Humility: art and; in Council Meeting; deference to others and; in dress; with material possessions; in preaching; “Rules of a Godly Life” on
Hunting
Hurricane Katrina
Hydraulic power
Hymnals
See also Ausbund
See also Ausbund
Hymns; family singing of; first, in worship service; at funerals; in schools; second, in worship service; singing of; at weddings
See also Ausbund
See also Ausbund
“Ich hab ein Freund”
(I have a friend . . .
(I have a friend . . .
Idleness: “Rules of a Godly Life” on; teaching children to avoid
Idols, prohibition of
Illness: anointing-with-oil rite for; congenital; natural remedies for; submission to God’s providence and; support for people with
See also
Disabilities; Health care;
Medical headings
See also
Disabilities; Health care;
Medical headings
Imitation of Christ,The
(à Kempis)
(à Kempis)
Immunization
In Meiner Jugend: A Devotional Reader in German and English
“In the Rifted Rock I’m Resting,”
In vitro fertilization
Indiana, Amish settlements in
Individual expression, areas of
Individualism: Amish communalism
versus
; of contemporary spirituality; in-depth spiritual study and; Western ideal of
versus
; of contemporary spirituality; in-depth spiritual study and; Western ideal of
Industrial Revolution
Insurance prohibitions
Internet use
Ivverich und Ender
(Odds and Ends)
(Odds and Ends)
James: 3:6
Jesus Christ: Amish as followers of; nonresistance of; review of life of, on Communion Sunday; simple living of; suffering of; surrender of
“Jesus Liebt die Kleine Kinder”
(“Jesus Loves the Little Children”)
(“Jesus Loves the Little Children”)
Jewelry
Jezebel
John
1 John 2:15
Joshua 24:15
Judgment: criminal justice system and; leaving, to God; refraining from
Judicial system, state
Keillor, G.
Kempis, T. à
King, E.
King, L.
King, M.L.K., Jr.
2 Kings 9:30-37
Kitchen table
Kline, D.
Kline, P.
Kneeling
Labor unions
La Grange County, Indiana
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