The Transatlantic World of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg in the Eighteenth Century
edited by Hermann Wellenreuther, Thomas Muller-Bahlke and A. Gregg Roeber
Hardback (Published)
(October 2013)
ISBN: 9783447069632
6.65 x 9.45 inches
Price: $109.00
Out of stock
Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), born in Einbeck, Lower Saxony, and sent as Lutheran pastor by Gotthilf August Francke, Director of the Hallesche Stiftungen, in 1742 to Pennsylvania, is considered the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the United States. The essays presented in The Transatlantic World of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg in the Eighteenth Century analyze the world and achievements of the German pastor. In order to evaluate Muhlenberg’s accomplishments as well as his failings, the first five contributors focus on Muhlenberg’s time in Europe and especially on his educational and religious experiences in Einbeck and in Halle as well as his theology studies at Gottingen and his times in Halle as teacher that shaped his later experiences in the US. In Pennsylvania, Muhlenberg had to confront a legal framework different from Europe, with fierce political infighting that pitted Lutherans and Anglicans against Peace Churches and pastors with attacks from within their own congregations and the Pennsylvania German press dominated by the hostile Saur family. In these difficult and then revolutionary times, Muhlenberg came to conclude that a “great gulf” had opened between the Old World he remembered and what he experienced in the New World. With the adoption of a Kirchenordnung (congregational constitution) of 1762 by several Lutheran congregations, the religious and then the secular worlds of governance shifted dramatically for the transplanted European Lutherans. The Declaration of Independence stripped his connections to Pietistic Germany and the strong-willed pious and Pietistic Lutheran Pastor died in 1787 in a world dedicated to establishing a new secular constitutional order.
- Edited by Thomas Muller-Bahlke
- Edited by A Gregg Roeber
- Edited by Hermann Wellenreuther
Other Titles in this Series
Halle, England und das Reich Gottes weltweit – Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen (1694-1776 )
Hallescher Pietist und Londoner Hofprediger
Volume 34
Halles Netzwerk im Siebenjahrigen Krieg
Kriegserfahrungen und Kriegsdeutungen in einer globalen Kommunikationsgemeinschaft
Volume 59
Interdisziplinare Pietismusforschungen. Beitrage zum Ersten Internationalen Kongress fur Pietismusforschung 2001
In Verbindung mit Hartmut Lehmann, Thomas Muller-Bahlke und Johannes Wallmann
Volume 17
Der Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses als Schulbuchverlag zwischen 1830 und 1918
Die erfolgreichen Geografie- und Geschichtslehrbucher und ihre Autoren
Volume 25
Die ‘Sammlung auserlesener Materien zum Bau des Reichs Gottes’ zwischen 1730 und 1760
Erbauungszeitschriften als Kommunikationsmedium des Pietismus
Volume 18
Die indischen Mitarbeiter der Tranquebarmission (1706-1845)
Katecheten, Schulmeister, Ubersetzer
Volume 26
Das Hallesche Waisenhaus und seine Lehrer im 18. Jahrhundert
Lernen und Lehren im Kontext einer fruhneuzeitlichen Bildungskonzeption
Volume 19
Zum andern soltu meditirn
Die Meditationspraktiken in der Padagogik August Hermann Franckes
Volume 38
Schreiben im Netzwerk
Briefe von Frauen als Praktiken frommer Selbstbildung im fruhen Quedlinburger Pietismus
Mission und Forschung
Translokale Wissensproduktion zwischen Indien und Europa im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
Volume 29
Beiträge zum VI. Internationalen Kongress für Pietismusforschung 2022
Volume 71
Alter Adam und Neue Kreatur. Pietismus und Anthropologie. Beitrage zum II. Internationalen Kongress fur Pietismusforschung 2005
In Verbindung mit Hartmut Lehmann, Thomas Muller-Bahlke, Christian Soboth und Johannes Wallmann
Volume 28
Mission ohne Konversion?
Studien zur Arbeit und Umfeld des Institutum Judaicum et Muhammedicum in Halle
Das Kind in Pietismus und Aufklarung
Beitrage des Internationalen Symposiums vom 12. - 15. 11.1997 in den Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle
Volume 5
Der Herr wird seine Herrlichkeit an uns offenbahren Liebe, Ehe und Sexualitat im Pietismus
Volume 30
In Spirit and in Truth
Halle Biblical Interpreters on Music in Worship from Francke to Niemeyer
Volume 66
Similar Books
‘For You I Study, For You I Work, For You I Live, For You I Am Ready To Even Give My Life’
Essays in Honour of Francis (Frank) J Moloney, SDB
A Late Antique Harrowing of Hell and Its Medieval Reception
Eusebius of Alexandria's Sermons 15 and 17 (CPG 5524; 5526) and their Latin Rewritings
Volume 99
Ars Prophetica
Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Hebrew Poets Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi
Drunk the Potion, No Whit Charmed
The Doctrine of Pure and Perfect Souls from Iamblichus to Damascius
Extracanonical Traditions and the Holy Land
Texts, Rituals, and Material Culture in Late Antique Palestine
Fear, Fear of God, God-Fearers
Philological and Historical Perspectives on the World of Ancient Judaism and Christianity
Legal Visuality
Exegesis, Ambiguity, and Dissimulation of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period
Liturgia semper reformanda
Adaptations and accommodations in the liturgy in light of canon 838 of the Code of Canon Law
Pre-Christian Religions, Rituals, and Beliefs in Central and Northern Europe
Interdisciplinary Investigations
Volume 5
The Therapeutae as the Best Paradigm for the Contemplative Life
A Contextual Reading of Philo of Alexandria's De Vita Contemplativa
