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Abstract: A letter from August 1842 written by Jacob Zorn to his dear friend and brother in the faith, Reverend J. G. Kummer, documents a spiritual phenomenon that had overcome many members of the Moravian congregation of Fairfield, Jamaica. Zorn, the superintendent of the Moravian mission in Jamaica, mentions that he had witnessed “many backsliders in heart & in practice.”1 Accordingly, Zorn attributed his congregation’s spiritual failing to an “old man, an African,” who “deluded a great many of our people by setting himself up to be a prophet.”2 The old man, whose influence permeated into the ranks of the Fairfield congregation, “had succeeded in making [Moravian congregants] believe the most ridiculous stories” and caused ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The text presented here is a creed, written by Zinzendorf at the end of 1731, which offers a summary of the theology of the Herrnhut community in its early years. The text survives in two versions: the original draft dated December 6, 1731, and a 1740 printed version published in the first issue of the Büdingische Sammlung.1 The 1731 creed is one of a series of documents composed by Zinzendorf to define the nature and character of the Herrnhut congregation during these years: the Manorial Commandments and the Brotherly Agreement from the summer of 1727 (together, Statutes of Herrnhut), the revised Statutes from November 1728, and the Notarial Instrument from August 1729.2 These texts constituted Herrnhut as a ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From its inception in Herrnhut in the 1720s, Zinzendorf’s Brüdergemeine (now known in English as the Moravian Church)1 was conscious of its place in Christian history. The belief that God was active in and through it made it important not only to record events in diaries and journals as they happened but also to write retrospective accounts. In the literary church culture that Zinzendorf created, policy discussions could be resourced by letters and papers. Not only were large numbers of documents written, but a high proportion of them have survived. As a nobleman and a legally trained administrator, Zinzendorf understood the usefulness of archives, and after his death they continued to be maintained and valued ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In the Fall 2010 issue (vol. 9) of the Journal of Moravian History, Andrew Heil, Paul Peucker, and Lanie Graf Yaswinski prepared a comprehensive overview of publications on the Moravian Church in English from 2000 to 2010; and a comparable bibliography for the years 2011–15 was prepared by Thomas J. McCullough and published in the Fall 2016 issue (vol. 16, no. 2). This current bibliography does the same for the years 2016–20. It contains scholarly books, articles, and editions of primary sources, as well as some unpublished theses and dissertations. Not included are book reviews, nonscholarly articles and books, and the numerous modern reprints of older publications that have been flooding the market in recent ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The Hussite movement is an interesting phenomenon—and not only for religious history—but there is not a great deal of reliable literature about it available in English. A handbook that promises to provide a broad overview of the current state of research is therefore welcome. Furthermore, in this case it does indeed fulfil its promises satisfactorily. The collective that has joined forces to produce it consists of specialists who have devoted themselves to the subjects covered in the book for many years and who are familiar with the primary sources. The editors, one Canadian and one Czech, have assembled a group of thirteen contributors: mostly Czechs, but also Americans and one Frenchman.A good impression is made ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-20T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A Curious Garden of Herbs seems the perfect title for a book that is, itself, rather curious. Moss and Simmons have compiled a well-researched and beautifully presented catalog of plants commonly used in the eighteenth century. Rather than following the model of period herbals, this book provides the reader with the context in which the plants were used. Understanding who used what plants and why is just as important to gaining a more accurate understanding of the period as how they were used. Plants featured in this book are those that would have been found in the kitchen gardens and orchards of the “middling sort” throughout the southern colonies and into the Mid-Atlantic. Moss and Simmons present a range of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-05-20T00:00:00-05:00
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