Peucker, Paul, 1963-

A time of sifting : mystical marriage and the crisis of Moravian piety in the eighteenth century / Paul Peucker. - 1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages) : illustrations. - Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist studies .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index.

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.

"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.

9780271070759 0271070757


Moravian Church--History--18th century.


Piety--History--18th century.
Marriage--Religious aspects--Moravian Church--History--18th century.
RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant


Electronic books.

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