Pietisms in the American Wilderness
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Pietisms in the American Wilderness

Heinrich Melchior MĂŒhlenberg, David Zeisberger, and their Missions in Eighteenth-Century North America

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Pietisms in the American Wilderness

Heinrich Melchior MĂŒhlenberg, David Zeisberger, and their Missions in Eighteenth-Century North America

About this book

The study attempts to find out how and to what extent two Pietisms transfered from the Old World to North America changed due to political, social, and cultural conditions in the years 1742-1800. Two individuals, the German Lutheran pastor Heinrich Melchior MĂŒhlenberg (1711-1787) sent from the Glauchasche Anstalten in Halle/Saale and the Moravian missionary David Zeisberger (1721-1808) from Herrnhut, serve as protagonists through which concepts, ways of life, and religious ideas of the two Pietisms are analyzed. The geographic limits of this study are Pennsylvania, the middle Atlantic colonies of British North America/states within the USA, and what after the American Revolution was called the Northwest Territory. The chapters focus on key concepts with regard to Pietisms like environment, missions, realities, faith and conversion. Special regard is given to the impact of the American Revolution on the Halle's pastors Heinrich Melchior MĂŒhlenberg and his colleagues, and on their Moravian counterpart David Zeisberger, his mission congregations in the Ohio Valley or Bethlehem as the leading Moravian congregation in Pennsylvania. Hermann Wellenreuther (1941- 2021) held the chair of German, British, American, and Atlantic Early Modern History at the Georg-August University in Göttingen.

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Information

Publisher
LIT Verlag
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9783643913746
eBook ISBN
9783643963741
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Ministry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. I. Preparing for the Lord’sWork: Background, Upbringing, and Educational Environment
  6. II. Halle’s and Herrnhut’s Meanings and Realities of „Mission“
  7. III. Pastoral and Mission Realities
  8. IV. Drawing and Transgressing Religious Boundaries
  9. V. Revolutionary Troubles: Pietisms on Trial in Pennsylvania’s Towns, Villages, andWoodlands
  10. VI. „And their Missions impossible“ Lutherans, Moravians, and their Mission congregations, 1742 – 1782. Conclusions
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Archives
  13. List of maps and illustrations with abbreviated titles