Halle Pastors, German Settlers, and Lutheran Congregations in North America. Critical Edition und Scholarly Exploration of Letters and Journals, 1740-1820

北美的霍尔牧师、德国定居者和路德教会。

• 批准号: 387960886
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Thomas Müller-Bahlke
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Franckesche Stiftungen
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Publication Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/387960886?language=en
• 关键词: Halle; Pastors; German; Settlers; Lutheran

Volumes 1 and 2, which are to be published, result from an DFG-funded project entitled "Halle Pastors, German Settlers, and Lutheran Congregations in North America: Critical Edition and Scholarly Exploration of Letters and Journals, 1740-1820". This project aims to publish an eight-volume, commented collection of source material. Volume 1 contains 2 curricula vitae and 11 journals of 2 pastors, dating from 1744 to 1758. Volume 2 includes 14 curricula vitae and 19 journals of 10 pastors, dating from 1746-1784. Most of the sources presented have never been published. Extracts from some of the journals appeared, heavily edited tough, in contemporary missionary and edifying literature. Up to now, there does not exist any edition that is completely annotated, gives numerous cross references, provides detailed indices and is highly faithful to the original wording of the sources.The two volume are of particular value to scholarship in several respects:1. The curricula vitae teil much about the pastors' family and social background. They reveal the cardinal significance that personal relations and informal as much as institutional networks of sponsorship had for a candidate's taking up studies of divinity, entering the ministry, and finally being called to pastoral service overseas.2. The curricula vitae allow intriguing insights into the writers' religious beliefs, innermost feelings, and personal thoughts, into their self-perception, and into their way of handling their own weaknesses and the constant struggles between the certainties of faith and religious doubts. Many such biographical resumes read like personal sketches reflecting an ongoing conflict between the authors's own standards and abilities on the one hand and God's commandments and their superiors' expectations on the other.3. The journals provide multi-facetted insights not only into congregational issues but also into real life in eighteenth-century North America, contrasting it with the conditions in Germany and Europe, which were entirely different. In addition to regular ministerial acts, there are plenty of comments and reflections on other denominations and non-Christian persuasions, on current events in politics and society, or on recent developments in science and culture.4.Usually integrated into the journals, travelogs impressively describe the circumstances and difficulties of traveling on land or at sea prior to the age of steam engines and railways. Besides furnishing indidual observations of the country and its people, of nature and environment, they illustrate how carefully any dispatch of preachers had to be planned and arranged for in advance, and the many dangers the pastors faced on their way to America.

将出版的第1和2卷由DFG资助的项目归因于北美的“哈勒牧师，德国定居者和路德教会会众：1740-1820的信件和期刊的关键版和学术探索”。该项目旨在发布八卷，评论的原始资料集合。第1卷包含2个课程和11个牧师的期刊，可追溯到1744年至1758年。第2卷包括14个课程vitae和19位10位牧师的期刊，可追溯到1746 - 1784年。所提出的大多数来源从未出版过。一些期刊的摘录在当代传教士和启发性文学中出现，严格编辑艰难。到目前为止，还没有任何完全注释的版本，提供了许多交叉引用，提供了详细的索引，并且非常忠于来源的原始措辞。这两个卷在几个方面都对奖学金特别有价值：1。课程涉及牧师的家庭和社会背景很多。他们揭示了基本的意义，即个人关系和非正式与赞助机构网络一样多，候选人正在对神性进行研究，进入该部的研究，并最终被召集到海外的牧师服务。2。课程的范围使他们对作家的宗教信仰，最内心的情感和个人思想，自我感知，以及处理自己的弱点以及信仰和宗教怀疑的确定性之间的持续斗争的方式有吸引力的见解。许多这样的传记简历读起来像是个人草图，反映了作者自己的标准和能力之间持续的冲突，一方面是上帝的诫命及其上级对另一方面的期望。3。这些期刊不仅为会众提供了多方面的见解，而且还为18世纪北美的现实生活提供了多方面的见解，与德国和欧洲的条件形成鲜明对比，这些条件完全不同。除了定期的部长级行为外，对其他教派和非基督教说服，政治和社会的时事或科学和文化的最新发展都有很多评论和思考。描述在蒸汽机和铁路时代之前在陆地或海上旅行的情况和困难。除了提供对自然和环境的独立观察，还说明了如何预先计划和安排任何传教士的派遣，以及牧师在前往美国的许多危险。