Alexander Volck’s Anti-Moravian Polemics as Enlightenment Anxieties
Alexander Volck’s Das entdeckte Geheimnis der Bosheit der Herrnhutischen Secte (The Revealed Secret of the Malice of the Herrnhuter Sect, 1748-1751) associates the Moravians with developments in philosophy and religion, such as Spinozism and historical Bible criticism, that had been emerging in Euro...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn State Univ. Press
2014
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Journal of Moravian history
Year: 2014, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 103-118 |
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| Summary: | Alexander Volck’s Das entdeckte Geheimnis der Bosheit der Herrnhutischen Secte (The Revealed Secret of the Malice of the Herrnhuter Sect, 1748-1751) associates the Moravians with developments in philosophy and religion, such as Spinozism and historical Bible criticism, that had been emerging in Europe since the seventeenth century. As a result, Volck’s attacks on the Moravians reveal his anxieties about the challenges to traditional sources of secular and religious authority that the Enlightenment presented. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-6310 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Moravian history
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