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Authors: Donald B. Kraybill,Steven M. Nolt,David L. Weaver-Zercher

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English language: in Amish funerals; in Amish schools
 
Enright, R. D.
 
Ephesians
 
Episcopal Church
 
Esau and Jacob
 
 
Evangelicalism
 
Everything for Sale
(Kuttner)
 
Evil: divine judgment and; earthly justice and; providence and
 
Evil and the Justice of God
(Wright)
 
Excommunication: among Anabaptists; conditions for; practice of; shunning and. See also Shunning
 
Ex-members, forgiveness and pardon of
 
Exodus 20:4
 
Extended families
 
F
 
Faces of Forgiveness, The
(Shults and Sandage)
 
Factory work
 
Faithful America blog
 
Families of victims: acts of forgiveness by; attendance of, at Roberts’ funeral; on forgiveness; gratitude of, for outside support; Roberts family meetings with; Roberts family’s ongoing activities with; on struggle for forgiveness; trust fund for; update on, as of 2009,
 
Family Life
 
Farmers markets
 
Farms, Amish
 
Fasting
 
Fatalism: outsiders’ perception of; submission
versus
 
 
Final judgment.
See also
Salvation
 
Firehouse.
See
Bart Township Fire Company
 
Footwashing
 
Forgetting and forgiving
 
Forgive for Good
(Luskin)
 
Forgive-and-forget policy
 
Forgiveness: for acts against other people; cautions for; in Christianity; conditions for; debate about; decisional
versus
emotional; defining; for extremely heinous acts; key questions about; pressured; psychology of; Roberts’ mother’s process of; scholarship of; unconditional
 
Forgiveness, Amish: in aftermath of shooting; Amish culture and; Amish definition of; Amish martyrs and; Amish public speaking on; Amish reactions to outsiders’ interest in; in Amish schoolbooks; analysis of forgiveness and; anger and; biblical sources for; challenges of, for Amish; Christian forgiveness and; as communal responsibility; in communion season; critiques of; examples of, in other incidents; habit of; impact of; lessons from; love and; media coverage of; national conversation about; others’ ideological use of; pardon
versus
; personal struggles with; positive reactions to; practice of; pressured; questions about; redemption and, ; roots of; salvation dependent on; shunning and; spirituality of; of strangers; sympathy and; teaching, to children; textual sources of; transferability of, to mainstream society;
Uffgevva
and.
See also
Critiques of Amish forgiveness
 
Forgiveness and Reconciliation
(Worthington)
 
Forgiveness Is a Choice
(Enright)
 
Fox News
 
Free of Charge
(Volf)
 
Free will
 
Funds, victim relief.
See also
Donations
 
Funeral processions
 
Funerals, Amish: benches for; customs of; non-Amish guests of; of shooting victims
 
G
 
Galatians 6:2
 
Gelassenheit
(submission): church authority and; concept and dimensions of; divine providence and; forgiveness and; stories and songs that illustrate; teaching, to children; transgression of
 
Gender roles
 
Genesis 33:1-17
 
Georgetown, Pennsylvania; hit-and-run incident near; Roberts’ home in.
See also
Bart Township
 
Georgetown United Methodist Church
 
Gergen, K. J.
 
German language: in Amish schools; in Amish worship services
 
Gingerich, E.
 
Giving up.
See Uffgevva
 
Gmay
.
See also
Worship services
 
Gobodo-Madikizela, P.
 
God’s providence: Amish views of; biblical sources on; human choice and; miracles and; and Nickel Mines shooting; questions of; and the reality of evil; surrender to
 
Good Night, My Son
 
Gospels: discipleship tradition and; priority of, in Amish theology.
See also specific book headings
 
Gottlieb, A. M.
 
Government.
See State headings
 
Graber.
 
Grace.
See
Acts of grace; Forgiveness; Forgiveness, Amish
 
Gracious remembering
 
Grapevine, Amish
 
Gratitude, Amish, for outside support
 
Greater good, providence and
 
Greetings, ritual
 
Gregory, B.
 
Grief counselors
 
Grief support groups
 
Grieving: Amish; Amish community support for; Amish preparedness for; bench wagons and; death rituals and; emotional suppression and; ongoing; public expression of; rituals of mourning and
 
Growing Up Amish
(Stevick)
 
Grudges, letting go of: Amish belief in; in communion season; against ex-members; forgiveness defined as; against Roberts family; struggles with.
See also
Forgiveness, Amish; Resentment
 
Gun control debate
 
H
 
Harvest season
 
Hastert.
 
Helicopters, on day of shooting
 
Herod, King
 
Hershey Medical Center
 
Hesburgh, T.
 
Hidden curriculum
 
History of the Amish, A
 
Hochstetler, J.
 
Hockey
 
Holmes County, Ohio
 
Holocaust, and forgiveness debate
 
Horse-and-buggies: bench wagons and; subgroup differences in; use of
 
Hosea
 
Hospitals, victims at
 
Human Being Died That Night, A
(Gobodo-Madikizela)
 
Humility: and avoidance of publicity; and deferring to divine justice; and deferring to divine providence; forgiveness and;
Gelassenheit
and; and lack of public commemoration; in prayer and practice; sources of
 
Hunting season
 
Hurricane Agnes
 
Hurricane Katrina
 
Huyard family
 
Hymns.
See
Songs and hymns
 
I
 
“I Was a Little Child,”
 
“Ich war ein kleines Kindlein,”
 
Iligabiza.
 
Immigration to North America
 
“In der stillen Einsamkeit,”
 
“In Quiet Solitude,”
 
Indiana, Amish settlements in
 
Indifference, forgiveness
versus
 
Individualism: Amish communal authority
versus
; anger and; forgiveness and;
Gelassenheit versus
; in mainstream American society.
See also
American mainstream society
 
Industrial Revolution
 
Insurance, Amish rejection of
 
Islam
 
J
 
Jacoby, J.
 
Japanese origami cranes
 
Jesus, discipleship and.
See also
Crucifixion; Discipleship
 
“Jesus Loves Me,”
 
Job, providence and
 
Job 40:4
 
John (Gospel): 4:10 forgiveness story in
 
Johnson-Weiner, K. M.
 
Journalists: challenges of; on-site presence of; questions of, regarding Amish forgiveness.
See also
Media; Publicity
 
Judaism
 
Judicial system.
See
State authority
 
Justice.
See
Final judgment; God’s providence; Salvation; State authority and justice; Two-kingdom theology
 
K
 
Khaleej Times
 
Kime, J.
 
King, E.
 
Kraybill. B.
 
Kuttner, R.
 
L
 
Labi, N.
 
Lamb, S.
 
Lambright, M.
 
Lancaster Amish lectionary
 
Lancaster Amish settlement: Amish schools in; autumn in; characteristics of; funerals and viewings in; mourning rituals in; other violent incidents in; population of; reactions of, to media coverage of forgiveness.
See also
Nickel Mines community; West Nickel Mines School
 
Lancaster City
 
Lancaster County Emergency Management Agency
 
Larry King Live
 
Leaders, ordained: abuse of power by; church districts and; roles of
 
Lectionary
 
Lefever.
 
Left to Tell
(Iligabiza)
 
Legal Affairs
 
Lena
 
Levy.
 
Liberal Christianity, Amish-inspired critiques of
 
Limits, respect for
 
Lord’s Prayer:
Gelassenheit
and; language used for; location of, in Gospel of Matthew; occasions for recitation of, ; prominence of, in Amish faith; on salvation and forgiveness; as source on divine providence; as source on forgiveness
 
Love: Amish view of; of enemy; forgiveness and; shunning as “tough,”
 
Luke (Gospel): 23:34; as source for forgiveness
 
Luskin, F.
 
Luther, M.
 
M
 
Mainstream society.
See
American mainstream society; English, the (non-Amish)
 
Manson.
 
Marian
 
Mark (Gospel), as source for forgiveness
 
Martyrs, Amish: ballads of; forgiveness and; shooting victims as; sixteenth-century; stories of
 
Martyrs, non-Amish
 
Martyrs Mirror (Bloody Theater or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians, The)

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