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title	:	Community for Life
author	:	Eggers, Ulrich.
publisher	:	Herald Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0836134516
print isbn13	:	9780836134513
ebook isbn13	:	9780585183756
language	:	English
subject	Hutterian Brethren (Rifton, N.Y.) , Eggers, Ulrich,--1955- , Rifton (N.Y.)--Description and travel, Rifton (N.Y.)--Church history.
publication date	:	1988
lcc	:	BX8129.B634R54313 1988eb
ddc	:	289.7/74734
subject	:	Hutterian Brethren (Rifton, N.Y.) , Eggers, Ulrich,--1955- , Rifton (N.Y.)--Description and travel, Rifton (N.Y.)--Church history.

Page 3 Community for Life Ulrich Eggers Foreword by John A. Hostetler HERALD PRESS Scottdale, Pennsylvania Kitchener, Ontario 1988

Page 4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Eggers, Ulrich, 1955 Community for life. Translation of: Gemeinschaftlebenslnglich. Bibliography: p. 1. Hutterian Brethren (Rifton, N.Y.) 2. Eggers, Ulrich, 1955 . 3. Rifton (N.Y.)Description. 4. Rifton (N.Y.)Church history. I. Title. BX8129.B634R54313 1988 289.7'74734 87-17817 ISBN 0-8361-3451-6 (pbk.) Photo credits: pages 65, 66 (bottom), 68 (top), 70 (bottom), 71 (bottom right), 72 (top), 138, 139, 140 (bottom), 141 (bottom), 142 (bottom), and 143 (top) by Plough Publishing House; pages 68 (bottom), 69 (top and bottom right), 70 (top), 137 (bottom), and 141 (top) by Christel Eggers; cover and pages 66 (top), 67, 69 (bottom left), 71 (top and bottom left), 72 (bottom), 137 (top), 140 (top), 142 (top), 143 (bottom), and 144 by Ulrich Eggers. COMMUNITY FOR LIFE Copyright 1988 by Ulrich Eggers. Published by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683; released simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press, Kitchener, Ont. N2G 4M5. All rights reserved. Originally published in German under the title Gemeinschaft-lebenslnglich by Ulrich Eggers, published by Bundes-Verlag/R. Brockhaus-Verlag, Wuppertal, 1985. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 87-17817 International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-3451-6 Printed in the United States of America Design by Paula Johnson 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Page 5 Contents Foreword by John A. Hostetler 7 1. Weary Travelers 13 2. A Leap of Faith 25 3. Kerchieves, Beards, and Suspenders 35 4. The "Moondance" Solution 49 5. No Law but Love 62 6. A Symphony of Tools 84 7. Christian Utopia or Common Sense? 96 8. Increasing by Decreasing 117 9. Haydn with Bean Salad! 129 10. The. Wilderness Years 152 11. Festivities for All 166 12. A Bruderhof Balance Sheet 178 Afterword 189 Questions Asked of Prospective Novices 192 Map of Woodcrest Bruderhof 193 Other Maps 194 Time Line of the Bruderhofs 196 For Further Reading 197 Hutterian Society of Brothers Addresses 199 The Author 200

Page 7 Foreword Community for Life is an engaging, colorful, and personalized account of the bruderhof movement, surpassing in information, tone, and spiritual perception all the previous analytical studies by either insiders or outsiders. If community life in all its spiritual connotations can be put into words, this account has come the closest. The reader feels included in a wide scope of activity and perceptionsthe odors, heat, scenery, frustrations, the feelings between children and parents, and the reasons for lifelong commitment. This book is the first to treat the historical backgrounds, the ups and downs of community life, and the difficulties of the past with the support of bruderhof informants. The bruderhof movement originated in 1920 during a period of social unrest and spiritual searching in Germany. The mere articulation of disillusionment and the rejection of middle-class values was not sufficient for Eberhard Arnold (18831935), a deeply converted Christian man. Eberhard and his wife, Emmy, determined to follow the teaching and commandments of Jesus. With a few adults and their children the Arnolds began living in community, holding no private property and living in complete faith in Jesus. Others joined them, includ-

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