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Author De Vries, Minke

Title The Fruits of Grace : the Ecumenical Experience of the Community of Grandchamp
Published Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (222 pages)
Contents Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 222
Summary Before Taize, there was Grandchamp. The lesser-known Protestant women's community, initiated in 1936, grew out of generations of women's groups in French-speaking Switzerland. It was heavily influenced by Wilfred Monod, the Student Christian movement, Swiss Reformed efforts at liturgical renewal, and Bonhoeffer's Life Together. It was deeply affected by the angst generated by World War II and the search by European Christians for new ways to be Christian. This volume by the third prioress of the Community of Grandchamp in Switzerland reflects on the origins of the community, the sources and de
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and index
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Subject Protestant monasticism and religious orders -- Switzerland
Nuns -- Biography
Protestants -- Switzerland -- History
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
Nuns
Protestant monasticism and religious orders
Protestants
Switzerland
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Best, Thomas F
Gower, Nancy S
ISBN 9781532602245
1532602243