Ordnung is the Amish rules of living. It's the German word for order, arrangement, organization, system. Every Amish church has its own set of rules therefore follows its own Ordnung. Some of the most common rules are: Separation from the world, hard work, a woman's submission to her husband, clothing, refusal to buy life insurance, and many more. Amish couple in a horse-drawn buggy in rural Holmes County, Ohio, the site of one of the largest concentrations of Amish in the United States The Amish are a denomination of Anabaptists noted for their restrictions on the use of modern devices such as automobiles and electricity. ...
The Ordnung may also contain a set of Behavioral rules. Behavior (U.S.) or behaviour (U.K.) refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ...
According to the Ordnung the inside of the house the walls must be painted white.
The Ordnung states that a husband and wife are to bring their children up by harsh discipline.
It is against the Ordnung to press charges or to file a complaint against any of their members with the local legal system, no matter how serious the issue is.
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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