Out of the Silence: A Study of a Religious Community for Women: The Community of the Holy Name

by Lynne Strahan

Founded in 1888, Australia's Anglican Community of the Holy Name order has administered schools, hospitals, a girls' reformatory, orphanages, and an inner-city mission throughout its charitable empire, which stretches from its Melbourne base to New South Wales, South Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand. But behind the edifice of social welfare, a profounder, more mysterious reality has inspired the order's members, a commitment to the "hidden life...a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195548981
• ISBN13: 9780195548983
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.8"