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Ordnung (Order) |
 | | The Ordnung may contain broad principles of faith, e.g., nonresistance and common ownership of goods (in the case of Hutterites), as well as very specific applications of principles, e.g., permissible styles of clothing, (dress) or home furnishings. |
 | | The purpose of the Ordnung is not only to provide a list of individually acceptable or proscribed ethical behaviors but to structure a whole way of life, lived according to God's will, as expressed in the gospels. |
 | | The symbolic acts of the Ordnung structure a life of yieldedness, suffering servanthood, humility, defenselessness, and nonconformity with the world. |
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