Title: "A Plague of the state and the church": A local response to the Moravian enterprise
Creator: Petterson, Christina
Relation: Journal of Moravian History Vol. 16, Issue 1, p. 45-60
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/moh.2016.0001
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: In 1755 the Lutheran Pastor Johann Gottlob Seidel published his polemical text Haupt-Schlüssel zum Herrnhutischen Ehe-Sacrament. The publication consisted of a number of Count Zinzendorf's sermons to the married choirs in Herrnhut, Herrnhaag and Marienborn, with an introduction and running commentary by Seidel. The introduction is the point of departure of this article because Seidel's vehement criticism of Zinzendorf's business practices provides an insight into the effects of the emerging global economy on local industry. By shifting Seidel's emphasis from marriage to the choir structure of the community, this article will demonstrate how the Moravians took part in these processes.
Subject: Zinzendorf; marriage; feudalism; capitalism
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1315991
Identifier: uon:23049
Identifier: ISSN:1933-6632
Language: eng
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"A Plague of the state and the church": A local response to the Moravian enterprise