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Peucker, Paul, 1963-

Summary: 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.--

Language: eng

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University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015

Extent: xiv, 248 pages

Contents

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

Isbn: 9780271066431

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Label: A time of sifting : mystical marriage and the crisis of Moravian piety in the eighteenth century

Title: A time of sifting

Title remainder: mystical marriage and the crisis of Moravian piety in the eighteenth century

Statement of responsibility: Paul Peucker

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Peucker, Paul, 1963-

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Language: eng

Summary: 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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http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate: 1963-

http://library.link/vocab/creatorName: Peucker, Paul

Dewey number: 284.609033

Government publication: government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index: index present

Literary form: non fiction

Nature of contents: bibliography

Series statement: Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist studies

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Moravian Church
Piety
Marriage

Label: A time of sifting : mystical marriage and the crisis of Moravian piety in the eighteenth century, Paul Peucker

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A time of sifting : mystical marriage and the crisis of Moravian piety in the eighteenth century

Publication

University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index

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Contents: 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

Control code: FIEb17721520

Dimensions: 24 cm.

Extent: xiv, 248 pages

Isbn: 9780271066431

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System control number: (OCoLC)898909961

Label: A time of sifting : mystical marriage and the crisis of Moravian piety in the eighteenth century, Paul Peucker

Publication

University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015

Copyright

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-241) and index

Carrier category: volume

Carrier category code

Carrier MARC source: rdacarrier.

Content category: text

Content type code

Content type MARC source: rdacontent.

Contents: 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

Control code: FIEb17721520

Dimensions: 24 cm.

Extent: xiv, 248 pages

Isbn: 9780271066431

Media category: unmediated

Media MARC source: rdamedia.

Media type code

System control number: (OCoLC)898909961

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