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 …

In a letter written in apparent haste to request the expeditious transfer of an enslaved young
woman named Cecilia, Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf assured the recipient …

This article examines how Moravians in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries interpreted
the (Bohemian) Unity of the Brethren and the relationship of that church to the Moravian …

In the eighteenth century, missionaries of the radical, Pietist Moravian Church wandered
from Germanic Europe to the edges of the known world in search of tolerance and a closer …

Beginning in the 1740s, an increasing amount of anti-Moravian polemics was published
through the eighteenth century. Scholars from various denominations marked many of …

Gibbs uses Christian Latrobe, who ran the worldwide Moravian missions for almost 50
years, as a lens into Moravian conflicts over slavery and the growing abolitionist movement …

This dissertation seeks to explain the rise of missionary activism to a place of cultural
prominence in the early American republic from the 1780s, when missions were dilapidated …

Abstract The Moravian Church founded in Central Europe in 1457, exiled in 1627, renewed
in 1722, rose from a crisis in 1753 and regained its standing by the careful control of its past …

This paper explores the influence of Pietism on the radical evangelical Christian movement
known as the Open Brethren movement. In the 1830s, Anthony Norris Groves (1795–1853) …

The Moravians served as a catalyst towards the development of Protestant global missions.
William Carey, known as the" Father of Modern Missions," was greatly influenced by the …