Pietism and community in Europe and North America : 1650-1850 /
Pietism and community in Europe and North America : 1650-1850 /
edited by Jonathan Strom.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- 1 online resource (xii, 368 pages)
- Brill's series in church history ; v. 45 Religious history and culture series ; v. 4 .
- Brill's series in church history ; d. 45. Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series ; v. 4. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Understanding the church : issues of Pietist ecclesiology / Marriage and marriage-criticism in Pietism : Philipp Jakob Spener, Gottfried Arnold, and Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf / The "little church" of Johann Amos Comenius and Philipp Jakob Spener : approaches to church reform with a comprehensive social perspective / Communal diversity in radical German Pietism : contrasting notions of community in Conrad Bröske and Johann Henrich Reitz / "Wir Halenser" : the understanding of insiders and outsiders among Halle Pietists in Prussia under Frederick William I (1713-1740) / G.A. Francke and the Halle Communication Network : protection, politics, and piety / Pietism as a threat to the social order : Pietist communities in Jena 1727-1729 / Israel in the church and the church in Israel : the formation of Jewish Christian communities as a Proselytising strategy within and outside the German Pietist mission to the Jews of the eighteenth century / Identities across borders : the Moravian Brethren as a global community / Pink, White, and Blue : function and meaning of the colored choir ribbons with the Moravians / Network clusters and symbolic communities : communitalization in the eighteenth-century protestant Atlantic world / The pastor and the schoolmaster : language, dissent, and the struggle over slavery in colonial Ebenezer / Community in "companies" : the conventicles of George Rapp's Harmony Society compared to those in Württemberg Pietism and the Brüderunität / Leadership and mysticism : Gustaf Gisselkors, Jacob Kärmäki, and the final stages of Ostrobothnian separatism / Haugeanism between liberalism and traditionalism in Norway, 1796-1845 / Pietism and community in Magnus Friedrich Roos's dialogue books / Pietism as societal solution : the foundation of the Korntal Brethren (Korntaler Brüdergemeinde) / The communities of Pietists as challenge and as opportunity in the Old World and the New / Jonathan Strom -- Hans Schneider -- Wolfgang Breul -- Marcus Meier -- Douglas H. Shantz -- Benjamin Marschke -- Thomas P. Bach -- Gerald MacDonald -- Lutz Greisiger -- Gisela Mettele -- Paul Peucker -- Alexander Pyrges -- James Van Horn Melton -- Alice T. Ott -- Andre Swanström -- Arne Bugge Amundsen -- Anders Jarlert -- Samuel Koehne -- Hartmut Lehmann. Introduction /
Pietist movements challenged traditional forms of religious community, group formation, and ecclesiology. Where many older accounts have emphasized the individual and subjective nature of Pietists to the exclusion of community, one of the hallmarks of Pietism has been the creation of groups and experimentation with new forms of religious association and sociality. The essays presented here reflect the diverse ways in which Pietists struggled with the tension between the separation from the "world" and the formation of new communities from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century in Europe and.
English.
9789004193550 9004193553 1282948849 9781282948846 9786612948848 6612948841
Pietism--Europe.
Pietism--North America.
Communities--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
Communities--Europe.
Communities--North America.
Piétisme--Europe.
Piétisme--Amérique du Nord.
Communauté--Europe.
Communauté--Amérique du Nord.
RELIGION--Christianity--Protestant.
Communities
Communities--Religious aspects--Christianity
Pietism
Europe
North America
History
BR1652.E85 / P54 2010eb
280/.4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Understanding the church : issues of Pietist ecclesiology / Marriage and marriage-criticism in Pietism : Philipp Jakob Spener, Gottfried Arnold, and Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf / The "little church" of Johann Amos Comenius and Philipp Jakob Spener : approaches to church reform with a comprehensive social perspective / Communal diversity in radical German Pietism : contrasting notions of community in Conrad Bröske and Johann Henrich Reitz / "Wir Halenser" : the understanding of insiders and outsiders among Halle Pietists in Prussia under Frederick William I (1713-1740) / G.A. Francke and the Halle Communication Network : protection, politics, and piety / Pietism as a threat to the social order : Pietist communities in Jena 1727-1729 / Israel in the church and the church in Israel : the formation of Jewish Christian communities as a Proselytising strategy within and outside the German Pietist mission to the Jews of the eighteenth century / Identities across borders : the Moravian Brethren as a global community / Pink, White, and Blue : function and meaning of the colored choir ribbons with the Moravians / Network clusters and symbolic communities : communitalization in the eighteenth-century protestant Atlantic world / The pastor and the schoolmaster : language, dissent, and the struggle over slavery in colonial Ebenezer / Community in "companies" : the conventicles of George Rapp's Harmony Society compared to those in Württemberg Pietism and the Brüderunität / Leadership and mysticism : Gustaf Gisselkors, Jacob Kärmäki, and the final stages of Ostrobothnian separatism / Haugeanism between liberalism and traditionalism in Norway, 1796-1845 / Pietism and community in Magnus Friedrich Roos's dialogue books / Pietism as societal solution : the foundation of the Korntal Brethren (Korntaler Brüdergemeinde) / The communities of Pietists as challenge and as opportunity in the Old World and the New / Jonathan Strom -- Hans Schneider -- Wolfgang Breul -- Marcus Meier -- Douglas H. Shantz -- Benjamin Marschke -- Thomas P. Bach -- Gerald MacDonald -- Lutz Greisiger -- Gisela Mettele -- Paul Peucker -- Alexander Pyrges -- James Van Horn Melton -- Alice T. Ott -- Andre Swanström -- Arne Bugge Amundsen -- Anders Jarlert -- Samuel Koehne -- Hartmut Lehmann. Introduction /
Pietist movements challenged traditional forms of religious community, group formation, and ecclesiology. Where many older accounts have emphasized the individual and subjective nature of Pietists to the exclusion of community, one of the hallmarks of Pietism has been the creation of groups and experimentation with new forms of religious association and sociality. The essays presented here reflect the diverse ways in which Pietists struggled with the tension between the separation from the "world" and the formation of new communities from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century in Europe and.
English.
9789004193550 9004193553 1282948849 9781282948846 9786612948848 6612948841
Pietism--Europe.
Pietism--North America.
Communities--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
Communities--Europe.
Communities--North America.
Piétisme--Europe.
Piétisme--Amérique du Nord.
Communauté--Europe.
Communauté--Amérique du Nord.
RELIGION--Christianity--Protestant.
Communities
Communities--Religious aspects--Christianity
Pietism
Europe
North America
History
BR1652.E85 / P54 2010eb
280/.4