… der Einleitung von Thomas Müller-Bahlke)
September 6, 2011, marked the 300th anniversary of the birth of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg (1711–1787), who went down in history as the Patriarch of the Lutheran Church in North America. Little known in this country, Mühlenberg is still revered among American Lutherans to this day. Born in 1711 in Einbeck near Hanover, the Lutheran theologian was deeply influenced by…
… the Lutheran court preacher Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen in London, as well as to colleagues and congregations in North America, the two clergymen recount the difficulties of establishing a Lutheran church in a pluralistic religious environment and their conflicts with self-confident laypeople who were unwilling to submit to the leadership demands of European pastors. They also address financial issues,…
… letters from six previously little-known Lutheran clergymen active in Pennsylvania in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Written between 1744 and 1807, these letters reflect numerous aspects of everyday church life—from pastors' travels and illnesses to conflicts within congregations and issues of education, as well as the financing of congregational work and the care of pastors' widows. More than half of the…
… and, for the first time in India, also for girls. From here, the printing art was also spread throughout India. In 1919, the Danish-Halle Mission led to the creation of the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church (TELC). At the same time, Francke’s contacts with the British colonies in North America also intensified. In 1733, Halle pastors reached Georgia, North America, to care for the Salzburg emigrants. In…
… project of Gabriele Bellinzona examines the interconfessional relationship of the Lutheran-Pietist mission in Tranquebar and other stations to established local Christian groups (the Roman Catholic Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church and Thomas Christians) active in southern India during the 18th and 19th centuries. The letters of one of the first Pietist missionaries, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg…
Seit die religionswissenschaftliche und kolonialgeschichtliche Forschung sich verstärkt der wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung von Dokumenten in den Archiven der Missionsgesellschaften zuwendet, ist der Wert solcher Quellen für eine religionsgeschichtliche Erforschung des Hinduismus in Südindien häufig herausgehoben worden. Weniger beachtet geblieben ist hingegen die Frage nach dem Beitrag der
