RT Article
T1 Alexander Volck’s Anti-Moravian Polemics as Enlightenment Anxieties
JF Journal of Moravian history
VO 14
IS 2
SP 103
OP 118
A1 Miller, Derrick R.
LA English
PB Penn State Univ. Press
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1799397157
AB 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.