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Author : Elizabeth Fetter Lehman Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Century of Moravian Sisters written by Elizabeth Fetter Lehman Myers and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Fetter Lehman Myers
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020672125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (721 download)
Download or read book A Century of Moravian Sisters written by Elizabeth Fetter Lehman Myers and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the history of the Moravian Sisters of the Christian community over a century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Elizabeth Lehman Myers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331860747
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)
Download or read book A Century of Moravian Sisters written by Elizabeth Lehman Myers and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Century of Moravian Sisters: A Record of Christian Community Life A Century of Moravian Sisters: A Record of Christian Community Life was written by Elizabeth Lehman Myers in 1918. This is a 267 page book, containing 49065 words and 26 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Elizabeth Lehman Myers
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781494184391
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (843 download)
Download or read book A Century of Moravian Sisters written by Elizabeth Lehman Myers and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1918 Edition.
Author : Elizabeth Myers
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535598460
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (984 download)
Download or read book A Century of Moravian Sisters written by Elizabeth Myers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface. THE group of stone buildings on Church Street, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, known as the Sisters' House, Gemein House (Congregation House), and Widows' House, is a centre of interest to the tourist or to the newcomer within our gates. The women who have lived in them have come from Europe, the West Indies, South America, and all parts of North America. Cultured women of high degree; women of lesser degree but just as sweet and gentle, and women of the working class, strong and willing but with the same desire for spiritual uplift, -all these have dignified the old houses with the graciousness of their living. No historian has yet appeared to chronicle their doings. Fortunately, the early sisters kept a diary, noting the most ordinary actions of daily life; and this diary, now in the archives of the Moravian Church in Bethlehem, has been very helpful to me in the portrayal of life in the Eighteenth Century. The "Transactions of Moravian Historical Society" contain many interesting papers notably by Matthew Henry and James Henry which were a great assistance in the preparation of this book. The booklets and historical pamphlets of the Rt. Rev. Edmund de Schweinitz, the Rt. Rev. J. M. Levering and the Rev. W. C. Reichel have been studied carefully in order to give a correct back-ground for the groups of women, quaint and lovable, who move through these pages. The records of burials in the old graveyard by Dr. Augustus S. Schultze has been invaluable to me for names, dates and leading facts. The archives of the Moravian Church at Lititz and Bethlehem were courteously placed at my disposal by the custodians....
Author : Elizabeth Fetter Lehman Myers
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340796426
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (964 download)
Download or read book A Century of Moravian Sisters written by Elizabeth Fetter Lehman Myers and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Elizabeth Fetter Lehman Myers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Century of Moravian Sisters written by Elizabeth Fetter Lehman Myers and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Paul Gordon
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271082844
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Mary Penry written by Scott Paul Gordon and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Letters of Mary Penry, Scott Paul Gordon provides unprecedented access to the intimate world of a Moravian single sister. This vast collection of letters—compiled, transcribed, and annotated by Gordon—introduces readers to an unmarried woman who worked, worshiped, and wrote about her experience living in Moravian religious communities at the time of the American Revolution and early republic. Penry, a Welsh immigrant and a convert to the Moravian faith, was well connected in both the international Moravian community and the state of Pennsylvania. She counted among her acquaintances Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker and Hannah Callender Sansom, two American women whose writings have also been preserved, in addition to members of some of the most prominent families in Philadelphia, such as the Shippens, the Franklins, and the Rushes. This collection brings together more than seventy of Penry’s letters, few of which have been previously published. Gordon’s introduction provides a useful context for understanding the letters and the unique woman who wrote them. This collection of Penry’s letters broadens perspectives on early America and the eighteenth-century Moravian Church by providing a sustained look at the spiritual and social life of a single woman at a time when singleness was extraordinarily rare. It also makes an important contribution to the recovery of women’s voices in early America, amplifying views on politics, religion, and social networks from a time when few women’s perspectives on these subjects have been preserved.
Author : Paul Peucker
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271070714
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book A Time of Sifting written by Paul Peucker and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 1740s, the Moravians, a young and rapidly expanding radical-Pietist movement, experienced a crisis soon labeled the Sifting Time. As Moravian leaders attempted to lead the church away from the abuses of the crisis, they also tried to erase the memory of this controversial and embarrassing period. Archival records were systematically destroyed, and official histories of the church only dealt with this period in general terms. It is not surprising that the Sifting Time became both a taboo and an enigma in Moravian historiography. In A Time of Sifting, Paul Peucker provides the first book-length, in-depth look at the Sifting Time and argues that it did not consist of an extreme form of blood-and-wounds devotion, as is often assumed. Rather, the Sifting Time occurred when Moravians began to believe that the union with Christ could be experienced not only during marital intercourse but during extramarital sex as well. Peucker shows how these events were the logical consequence of Moravian teachings from previous years. As the nature of the crisis became evident, church leaders urged the members to revert to their earlier devotion of the blood and wounds of Christ. By returning to this earlier phase, the Moravians lost their dynamic character and became more conservative. It was at this moment that the radical-Pietist Moravians of the first half of the eighteenth century reinvented themselves as a noncontroversial evangelical denomination.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271079606
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Speaking to Body and Soul written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dating back to 1785, the Moravian “Instructions for the Choir Helpers” contain detailed advice for the spiritual counselors of the men, women, and children in Moravian congregations on how to address concerns about one’s body and soul. In this volume, Katherine Faull presents an annotated, translated edition of the original German manuscript. In monthly “speakings”—regularly scheduled dialogues between the choir helper and individual church members to determine whether the congregant could be admitted to communion—men and women received spiritual guidance on topics as varied as the physical manifestations of puberty, sexual attraction, frequency of intercourse, infant care, and bereavement. From their founding in 1722, the Moravians were remarkable for their positive evaluation of the body; they held that the natural manifestations of masculinity and femininity were integral elements of spiritual consciousness. The “Instructions for the Choir Helpers”—which were highly confidential at the time and passed on only by permission of the church administration—reflect that philosophy, providing insights into an interpretation of the body as a holistic system that should be cared for as a vessel for the spirit. A unique resource for scholars of religious history, gender studies, and colonial American church history, Faull’s translation of this fascinating set of documents provides an unprecedented glimpse into a period of foundational change in Moravian history.
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815626893
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Moravian Women's Memoirs written by and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groups of Moravians, a subsect of German Protestants, came to Pennsylvania in the 1740s as missionaries to the American Indians. Interestingly, each church member was and still is required to write a summary of his or her spiritual and earthly life. This volume translates some 40 such narratives written by Moravian women living in 18th century North America. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Michele Gillespie
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845453398
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Pious Pursuits written by Michele Gillespie and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays re members of the Moravian Church; although many of these Protestant immigrants spoke German, they originated in various countries.
Author : Rowena McClinton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803234392
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, Abridged Edition written by Rowena McClinton and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1801 the Moravians, a Pietist German-speaking group from Central Europe, founded the Springplace Mission at a site in present-day northwestern Georgia. The Moravians remained among the Cherokees for more than thirty years, longer than any other Christian group. John and Anna Rosina Gambold served at the mission from 1805 until Anna's death in 1821. Anna, the principal author of the diaries, chronicles the intimate details of Cherokee daily life for seventeen years. Anna describes mission life and what she heard and saw at Springplace: food preparation and consumption, transactions pertaining to land, Cherokee body ornaments, conjuring, Cherokee law and punishment, Green Corn ceremonies, ball play, and matriarchal and marriage traditions. She similarly recounts stories she heard about rainmaking, the origins of the Cherokee people, and how she herself conversed with curious Cherokees about Christian images and fixtures. She also recalls earthquakes, conversions, notable visitors, annuity distributions, and illnesses. This abridged edition offers selected excerpts from the definitive edition of the Springplace diary, enabling significant themes and events of Cherokee culture and history to emerge. Anna's carefully recorded observations reveal the Cherokees' worldview and allow readers a glimpse into a time of change and upheaval for the tribe.
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603979
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Moravian Women's Memoirs written by and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is made up of the autobiographical writings of thirty of the women who lived in the major North American Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at varying points in the eighteenth century. What follows are their memoirs, fascinating documents that contain insights into the lives of the women and men who lived in the Moravian communities in North America.... These Moravian women's memoirs reveal the intersection of the private and the public spheres of their lives. They are records of their spiritual paths in a world that in most cases challenged the bounds of knowledge inherited from their parents. However, whatever private insights these memoirs afforded the writers they were written to be shared with the congregation as a public relation of the author's spiritual and secular path through life. These memoirs formed part of the discourse of faith within the Moravian church.
Author : Jon F. Sensbach
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838543
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book A Separate Canaan written by Jon F. Sensbach and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge--an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief Elder was Christ himself. As the community's demand for labor grew, the Moravian Brethren bought slaves to help operate their farms, shops, and industries. Moravians believed in the universalism of the gospel and baptized dozens of African Americans, who became full members of tightly knit Moravian congregations. For decades, white and black Brethren worked and worshiped together--though white Moravians never abandoned their belief that black slavery was ordained by God. Based on German church documents, including dozens of rare biographies of black Moravians, A Separate Canaan is the first full-length study of contact between people of German and African descent in early America. Exploring the fluidity of race in Revolutionary era America, it highlights the struggle of African Americans to secure their fragile place in a culture unwilling to give them full human rights. In the early nineteenth century, white Moravians forsook their spiritual inclusiveness, installing blacks in a separate church. Just as white Americans throughout the new republic rejected African American equality, the Moravian story illustrates the power of slavery and race to overwhelm other ideals.
Author : Ulrike Wiethaus
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004517863
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Moravian Americans and their Neighbors, 1772-1822 written by Ulrike Wiethaus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary examination of Moravian Americanization in the Early Republic with a special focus on assimilation, innovation, and racialized segregation.
Author : Jean R. Soderlund
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780934223805
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Backcountry Crucibles written by Jean R. Soderlund and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American historians have emphasized major cities as cultural and economic centers. This volume explores the vitality of cultural, economic, and political life beyond those cities. The Lehigh Valley is a place where integral events occurred, but is also an example of regional growth outside large cities. Its unique location, close enough to New York and Philadelphia to market grain, iron, coal, and steel, yet distant enough to develop its own cultural life, offers a regional model persisting for more than two centuries heretofore unexplored in American historical scholarship. This persistence of cultural and economic patterns, including the capacity to change, makes Lehigh Valley history particularly intriguing.
