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Author: John R. Weinlick
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Published: 2010-04-10
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781933571003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1966, The Moravian Church Through The Ages tells the story of the Moravian Church through more than five and a half centuries.
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Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2017-03-08
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0271079606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDating back to 1785, the Moravian “Instructions for the Choir Helpers” contain detailed advice for the spiritual counselors of the men, women, and children in Moravian congregations on how to address concerns about one’s body and soul. In this volume, Katherine Faull presents an annotated, translated edition of the original German manuscript. In monthly “speakings”—regularly scheduled dialogues between the choir helper and individual church members to determine whether the congregant could be admitted to communion—men and women received spiritual guidance on topics as varied as the physical manifestations of puberty, sexual attraction, frequency of intercourse, infant care, and bereavement. From their founding in 1722, the Moravians were remarkable for their positive evaluation of the body; they held that the natural manifestations of masculinity and femininity were integral elements of spiritual consciousness. The “Instructions for the Choir Helpers”—which were highly confidential at the time and passed on only by permission of the church administration—reflect that philosophy, providing insights into an interpretation of the body as a holistic system that should be cared for as a vessel for the spirit. A unique resource for scholars of religious history, gender studies, and colonial American church history, Faull’s translation of this fascinating set of documents provides an unprecedented glimpse into a period of foundational change in Moravian history.
Author: Adelaide Lisetta Fries
Publisher: Raleigh, N.C. : Printed for the author by Edwards & Broughton
Published: 1905
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Moravian Brethren are one of the most notable of the pietistic sects to emerge from the Protestant Reformation. Mrs. Fries here documents the brief history of the Moravian community in Georgia, commencing with an overview of the sect and continuing through the negotiations between Brethren leader August Spangenburg and Georgia founder General James Oglethorpe, establishment of the Brethren community in Savannah, missionary work among the Creeks, and the departure of the Moravians for England, Pennsylvania, and other locations. Genealogists will find numerous references to transfers of land involving the Moravians, settlement maps, passenger lists of Moravian arrivals, a brief list of Moravian deaths in Georgia, and a name index to the persons mentioned in the text.
Author: Nola Reed Knouse
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 158046260X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Moravians, or Bohemian Brethren, early Protestants who settled in Pennsylvania and North Carolina in the eighteenth century, brought a musical repertoire that included hymns, sacred vocal works accompanied by chamber orchestra, and instrumental music by the best-known European composers of the day. Moravian composers -- mostly pastors and teachers trained in the styles and genres of the Haydn-Mozart era -- crafted thousands of compositions for worship, and copied and collected thousands of instrumental works for recreation and instruction. The book's chapters examine sacred and secular works, both for instruments -- including piano solo -- and for voices. The Music of the Moravian Church demonstrates the varied roles that music played in one of America's most distinctive ethno-cultural populations, and presents many distinctive pieces that performers and audiences continue to find rewarding. Contributors: Alice M. Caldwell, C. Daniel Crews, Lou Carol Fix, Pauline M. Fox, Albert H. Frank, Nola Reed Knouse, Laurence Libin, Paul M. Peucker, and Jewel A. Smith. Nola Reed Knouse, director of the Moravian Music Foundation since 1994, is active as a flautist, composer, and arranger. She is the editor of The Collected Wind Music of David Moritz Michael.
Author: Craig D. Atwood
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 0271035323
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Examines the history and development of Moravian theology, from its origins in the Hussite movement to the work of Comenius. Explores the theology of the Unity of the Brethren within the context of the Protestant Reformation"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Paul Peucker
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-06-19
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0271070714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the end of the 1740s, the Moravians, a young and rapidly expanding radical-Pietist movement, experienced a crisis soon labeled the Sifting Time. As Moravian leaders attempted to lead the church away from the abuses of the crisis, they also tried to erase the memory of this controversial and embarrassing period. Archival records were systematically destroyed, and official histories of the church only dealt with this period in general terms. It is not surprising that the Sifting Time became both a taboo and an enigma in Moravian historiography. In A Time of Sifting, Paul Peucker provides the first book-length, in-depth look at the Sifting Time and argues that it did not consist of an extreme form of blood-and-wounds devotion, as is often assumed. Rather, the Sifting Time occurred when Moravians began to believe that the union with Christ could be experienced not only during marital intercourse but during extramarital sex as well. Peucker shows how these events were the logical consequence of Moravian teachings from previous years. As the nature of the crisis became evident, church leaders urged the members to revert to their earlier devotion of the blood and wounds of Christ. By returning to this earlier phase, the Moravians lost their dynamic character and became more conservative. It was at this moment that the radical-Pietist Moravians of the first half of the eighteenth century reinvented themselves as a noncontroversial evangelical denomination.
Author: Hermann Wellenreuther
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 678
ISBN-13: 0271048247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John R. Weinlick
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. Daniel Crews
Publisher: Moravian Archives, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSixty years before Martin Luther and the Reformation, a Protestant church was born. Faith, Love, Hope tells the thrilling story of that church. Known by various names but most simply the Unity, this church sought to live a true apostolic life of the Holy Scripture through a rich heritage of church organization and discipline, hymns and liturgies, confessions and statements of belief. And yet as a pioneer of the Protestant faith, the Unity was banned and exiled in its Czech homeland, persecuted, and eventually omitted from the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the tragic Thirty Years War. With his usual lively wit and style, C. Daniel Crews, Archivist of the Moravian Church, Southern Province, tells the story of the Unity in Faith, Love, Hope. Crews¿s studies as a young man at the University of Prague left him with a love for the Ancient Unity and a knowledge of the Czech language that make him uniquely qualified to tell this history.
Author: Aaron Spencer Fogleman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2014-10-31
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0812291689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the middle of the Great Awakening, a group of religious radicals called Moravians came to North America from Germany to pursue ambitious missionary goals. How did the Protestant establishment react to the efforts of this group, which allowed women to preach, practiced alternative forms of marriage, sex, and family life, and believed Jesus could be female? Aaron Spencer Fogleman explains how these views, as well as the Moravians' missionary successes, provoked a vigorous response by Protestant authorities on both sides of the Atlantic. Based on documents in German, Dutch, and English from the Old World and the New, Jesus Is Female chronicles the religious violence that erupted in many German and Swedish communities in colonial America as colonists fought over whether to accept the Moravians, and suggests that gender issues were at the heart of the raging conflict. Colonists fought over the feminine, ecumenical religious order offered by the Moravians and the patriarchal, confessional order offered by Lutheran and Reformed clergy. This episode reveals both the potential and the limits of radical religion in early America. Though religious nonconformity persisted despite the repression of the Moravians, and though America remained a refuge for such groups, those who challenged the cultural order in their religious beliefs and practices would not escape persecution. Jesus Is Female traces the role of gender in eighteenth-century religious conflict back to the European Reformation and the beginnings of Protestantism. This transatlantic approach heightens our understanding of American developments and allows for a better understanding of what occurred when religious freedom in a colonial setting led to radical challenges to tradition and social order.
