… tense processes of adjustment between self-image and external perception shaped the institutional identity of Kloster Berge during Steinmetz's time. The contributions combine source-critical archival, church political, theological and devotional perspectives with overarching studies on the history of education and pedagogy in the 18th century. The question of the explanatory power of historiographical…
… and at the same time an important projection surface. This focus was essentially based on the practice-oriented interest in worldwide mission and the establishment of contact with the Christian churches of Eastern Europe, West and South Asia, and Northeast Africa, but also on a boom in oriental philology at the University of Halle, founded in 1694, as a young scientific discipline that was in the…
… his experiences in Pennsylvania. There he had to confront a legal framework different from Europe, with fierce political infighting unknown in Europe that pitted Lutherans and Anglicans against Peace Churches and pastors with attacks from within their own congregations and the Pennsylvania German press dominated by the hostile Saur family. In these difficult and then revolutionary times Mühlenberg came to…
