Community of True Inspiration

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Community of True Inspiration

religious group

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Barbara Heinemann
spiritual leader of the Community of True Inspiration, also known as the Amana Colony.
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spiritual leader of the Community of True Inspiration, also known as the Amana Colony.
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Amana Colonies
Amana developed from the Community of True Inspiration, founded in 1714 in the German principality of Hesse by the pietistic mystics Johann Friedrich Rock and Eberhard Ludwig Gruber. The community disintegrated after Rock’s death in 1749, but it was revived in 1817 by Christian Metz and Barbara Heinemann and…
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Amana developed from the Community of True Inspiration, founded in 1714 in the German principality of Hesse by the pietistic mystics Johann Friedrich Rock and Eberhard Ludwig Gruber. The community disintegrated after Rock’s death in 1749, but it was revived in 1817 by Christian Metz and Barbara Heinemann and…
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