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A time of sifting : mystical marriage and the crisis of Moravian piety in the eighteenth century / Paul Peucker.

Summary:
"Examines the eighteenth-century crisis in the Moravian Church known as the Sifting Time, and the church's subsequent shift from radical beliefs and practices to conservative mainstream Protestantism"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780271066431 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0271066431 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Herrnhut and Herrnhaag -- Historiography -- The crisis revealed -- Characteristics of the sifting -- Songs of the sifting -- The actual sifting -- The aftermath of the sifting -- The post-Zinzendorf era -- What was the sifting time? -- The sources.
Subject: Moravian Church > History > 18th century.
Piety > History > 18th century.
Marriage > Religious aspects > Moravian Church > History > 18th century.

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  • 2 of 3 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Allentown Public Library 284.609 PEUC (Text) 34455006928820 Adult Nonfiction 2nd FL Available -
Bethlehem Main Library 284.609 (Text) 33062008520737 Local History For Use in Library Only -
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