Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary Darmstadt

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The Evangelische Marienschwesterschaft eV is an evangelical sister community in Darmstadt-Eberstadt . The community is also known as the Darmstadt Sisterhood of Mary .

founding

The Sisterhood of Mary was founded in the post-war period in 1947 as part of a "revival" by mother Basilea Schlink (Klara Schlink), the sister of theology professor Edmund Schlink , together with mother Martyria Madauss (Erika Madauss) and the superintendent of the Methodist Church in Riedinger. “New life from rubble” - created and built up after the complete destruction of Darmstadt.

Francis Brothers

Since 1967 a small brotherhood has been affiliated with the Sisterhood of Mary, the "Evangelical Canaan-Francis Brotherhood".

theology

The sisters were involved in ecumenism and Christian-Jewish dialogue from an early age . With regard to the Jews, the idea of ​​atonement played a role from the very beginning: on behalf of the German people, the sisters wanted to set a sign of reconciliation between Christians and Jews. On the occasion of a trip to Israel by the Sisters of Mary in 1958, it was said that they would pray “an hour every night for the State of Israel and its inhabitants”. While the Sisters of Mary were considered progressive in the 1950s , today they are more likely to be perceived as conservative- evangelical , although their teaching and appearance have barely changed. They are now part of what is known as Christian Zionism and appear again and again at pro-Israel demonstrations and rallies in the Rhine-Main area.

criticism

The Sisters of Mary came under fire early on. They were accused of legalism, re-Catholicisation or heresy by liberal-Protestant or evangelical sides, others condemned them for charismatic gifts. Two former sisters published a “dropout report” at the end of the 1990s, which was lively discussed. One of the two previous sisters, Marianne Jansson, also wrote a theological master's thesis on the Sisters of Mary, submitted to Helsinki University .

literature

  • Basilea Schlink: Father of Love . Evang. Sisterhood of Mary, Darmstadt-Eberstadt 1957.
  • Basilea Schlink: Realities - God's work experienced today. Testimonial reports from the lives of the sisters . Evang. Sisterhood of Mary, Darmstadt-Eberstadt 1965.
  • Basilea Schlink: How I experienced God ... his way with me through seven decades . Evang. Sisterhood of Mary, Darmstadt-Eberstadt 1965.
  • Basilea Schlink: That nobody can see sad . A popular daily companion throughout the year.
  • Joela Krüger: The reconciliation revolution. Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary Darmstadt . In: Anna-Maria from the Wiesche, Frank Lilie (ed.): Kloster auf Evangelisch. Reports from life together . Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 2016, ISBN 978-3-89680-904-9 , pp. 122–124.
  • Lexicon for Theology and the Church , Volume 3, Sp. 1047f.
  • Theologische Realenzyklopädie , Volume 7, pp. 207-212.
  • Marianne Jansson, Riitta Lemmetyinen: Christian Existence Between Gospel and Legalism . Presentation and assessment of the teaching and life of the "Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary" in Darmstadt . Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt / Berlin / Bern 1997; ISBN 3-631-31561-9 .
  • Marianne Jansson, Riitta Lemmetyinen: When walls fall . CLV, Bielefeld; ISBN 978-3-89397-259-3 (pdf; 5.33 MB).
  • Roland Dotzert et al .: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt , Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-1930-3 and ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , p. 604.

Web links

criticism

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of the Canaan Franciscan Brothers
  2. ↑ Quoted from Gerhard Gronauer: The State of Israel in West German Protestantism. Perceptions in church and journalism from 1948 to 1972 (= AKIZ.B57). Göttingen 2013, p. 129.

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