Protestant convent?
Erik Reitsma TX/UB VL4031 94009
I have a question from a friend without net access. This is the question:
Are there any protestant convents, anywhere in the world? If so, could you
give some information about those?
Any E-mail on this subject to xkk...@brazil.ericsson.se would be
appreciated! Thanx in advance.
Kind regards,
Erik
Van Kelly
of Deaconries in Germany, the U.S., Japan, and maybe elsewhere. The
deaconesses do not live a strictly cloistered lifestyle, but they do
live communally, wear habit-like uniforms, and practice rigorous
disciplines of simplicity. Their deaconry in my home town hosts a
summer camp, nursing home, retreat center, concert series (sort of),
Bible conferences, and bookstore. They also run a sort of "novice"
program for young women, though not specifically focussed on producing
more deaconesses; i.e., further training beyond their "novitiate" is
required to become a deaconess, and relatively few novices complete
this additional training.
Van Kelly
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Richard A Chonak
There is the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary (Evangelische
Marienschwesterschaft), the Lutheran group led by Mother Basilea Schlink.
They're based in Germany, of course, but I don't know if they're present in
*.se. (Their US house is in Arizona.)
Good luck--
-_RC
Six O'Clock News
RAC> In article <Jan.6.01.42....@geneva.rutgers.edu>, xkk...@ericsson.se (Erik Reitsma TX/UB VL4031 94009 ) writes:
RAC> |> Are there any protestant convents, anywhere in the world? If so, could you
RAC> |> give some information about those?
RAC> There is the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary (Evangelische
RAC> Marienschwesterschaft), the Lutheran group led by Mother Basilea Schlink.
RAC> They're based in Germany, of course, but I don't know if they're present in
RAC> *.se. (Their US house is in Arizona.)
There is (also in Germany) the Jesus Bruderschaft, in Gnadental (nice name,
i.e. Grace Valley), a small village alongside the A3 between Cologne and
Frankfurt. I don't know if they still exist, but they did 10 years ago.
They have brothers, sisters, and even married couples. They have also
dependencies in other countries.
And don't forget Taize in France. They started as a protestant group for
men, but I think they are now mixed protestant/RC.
I have visited all three of the above, but I suppose there are other groups
also.
(By the way, is 'convent' only used for exclusive female groups in English?)
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[Convent is normally used for religious communities of females. The
Concise Oxford says "especially", implying that generic use is
possible, but I've never heard it used otherwise. --clh]
Stephen Wilcox, Mathematical Institute, Oxford, (2)73571
> Are there any protestant convents, anywhere in the world? If so, could you
The Church of England has convents in England; other Anglican churches probably
do elsewhere in the world. Religious houses were forbidden at the reformation
in England but in the 19th century, with the Oxford Movement Catholic revival
in the Church of England, they began to open again. As far as I know their
rules are based on the pre-reformation catholic rules; certainly as far as
outward appearance goes an Anglican brother or sister is indistinguishable from
a Roman Catholic one. At least one convent/monastery near here still preserves
rules like silence at meal-times, with readings from religious texts, and
accepts guests for short or long retreats. The brothers and sisters work and
act as spiritual guides. They seem to be used by Evangelicals as well as
Anglo-Catholics, despite an apparent resistence at some stage by Evangelicals
who saw them as more dangerous popery.
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