God on three sides: German pietists at war in eighteenth-century America
His glorious Protestant majesty and his rebelling colonies -- The holder of the heavens : Conrad Weiser -- The Pennsylvania Ministerium : Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg -- Serving God on three sides : the Moravians in Bethlehem -- Crossing over : a Lutheran chaplain discovers America -- The time to fi...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Eugene, Oregon
Pickwick Publications
[2019]
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Germany
/ Immigrants
/ Pietism
/ War
/ History 1700-1800
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| Further subjects: | B
Zeisberger, David (1721-1808)
B Moravians (Pennsylvania) (Bethlehem) B Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel (1746-1807) B Triebner, Christopher Frederic B Weiser, Conrad (1696-1760) B Pietism (United States) History 18th century B Melsheimer, Frederick Valentine (1749-1814) B United States Religion 18th century B Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior (1711-1787) |
| Summary: | His glorious Protestant majesty and his rebelling colonies -- The holder of the heavens : Conrad Weiser -- The Pennsylvania Ministerium : Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg -- Serving God on three sides : the Moravians in Bethlehem -- Crossing over : a Lutheran chaplain discovers America -- The time to fight : the career of Peter Mühlenberg -- Loving the enemy : the Moravian missionary David Zeisberger -- The Halle Hessian -- Conclusion. God on all sides. In the case of God on Three Sides, the specific religious experience under examination is the Pietistic element in German Protestant Christinaity. Pietists believed that spiritual regeneration, in which a portion of God's very own Spirit indwells the repentant sinner, was essential to one's power to live in God's will. The immigrant German Pietists given focus in the study belonged to two distinct ethnic German Pietist communities: Lutheran congregations serviced by mssionary pastors trained at the pietist Halle Institutes in the Kingdom of Prussia; and, the Renewed Unity of the Brethern which, by the 1740's, had established the communitarian town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania -- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 287-304 |
| ISBN: | 1532663188 |