阿米什人会接受割礼吗?有些人会,但这并非宗教仪式



  • 割礼并非阿米什人的宗教仪式;杨中心(Young Center)将洗礼和圣餐列为阿米什人最重要的两项仪式。
  • 阿米什人所认可的1632年《多德雷赫特信仰告白》(Dordrecht Confession)中并未提及割礼。
  • 门诺·西蒙斯(Menno Simons)拒绝了海因里希·布林格(Heinrich Bullinger)以割礼作为婴儿洗礼依据的论点。
  • 1968年俄亥俄州霍姆斯县的一项研究报告了当地医生的观点,即“直到最近,很少有阿米什人接受割礼”。
  • 目前尚无已发表的研究统计过有多少阿米什男性接受了割礼;这一选择权在于每个家庭。

Some Amish boys are circumcised, but not as a religious rite. No Amish confession or church rule calls for circumcision, and the few scholarly sources that mention it treat it as a decision for parents, their doctor or their midwife. No study has measured how many Amish men are circumcised. Is circumcision part of the Amish religion? No. The Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College names baptism and communion as the two important religious rituals of…

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