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

北美的哈雷牧师、德国乞丐和路德教会。

• 批准号: 417949350
• 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: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/417949350?language=en
• 关键词: Halle; Pastors; German; Bettlers; Lutheran

Volumes 3 and 4, which are to be published next, result from a 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". Both volumes contain letters and other official documents of two pastors each: 120 items dating from 1744 to 1763 (Vol. 3) and 137 items dating from 1751 to 1824 (Vol. 4). Some extracts from letters and documents, if heavily edited, appeared in contemporary missionary and edifying literature, but most of these sources have never been published before. Up to now, there does not exist any thoroughly annotated and commented edition of this material, providing detailed indices and faithfully rendering the original wording of the sources.The two volumes are of particular value to scholarship in several respects:1. Supplementing the travel accounts in volumes 1 and 2, these issues provide impressive descriptions of the conditions and difficulties travelers had to cope with prior to the age of railroads and steamboats. In addition to observations of country and people, of nature and the environment, they reveal the diligent planning, coordination and logistics needed for dispaching pastors overseas, and the dangers the preachers were exposed to on their way to America.2. Many letters permit intriguing insights into the writers’ religious beliefs, innermost feelings, and personal thoughts, into their self-perception, and into their way of handling personal shortcomings and a struggle between the certainties of faith and religious doubts.3. The documents allow multi-facetted insights not only into congregational issues but also into daily life in eighteenth-century North America, as they are contrasted with conditions in Germany and Europe being entirely different.4. Whereas Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711–1787), Halle’s first pastor in Pennsylvania, rarely hesitated to criticize his colleagues bluntly, his peers used to be more cautious in addressing other Hallensians’ mistakes or shortcomings. Pastors Handschuch and Helmuth were particularly eager to report successes of their ministry or of promoting schooling and higher education. Hence, extracts from such narratives frequently appeared in the Halle Reports.5. Readers familiar with Muhlenberg’s correspondence will notice in Volumes 3 and 4 that his peers widely spare any contouring of this leading Halle cleric’s personality. Though Muhlenberg is omnipresent in their writings, his colleagues largely abstain from revealing their views of his generalship and accomplishments as the chief organizer of churched Lutheranism in North America.

接下来将发表的第3和4卷是由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的“哈勒牧师，德国定居者”：1740- 1820年对信件和期刊的关键版和学术探索”。这两个卷都包含两位牧师的字母和其他官方文件：120个项目，可追溯到1744年至1763年（第3卷）和137个项目，其历史可追溯到1751年至1824年（第4卷）。一些从信件和文件中进行的摘录（如果经过大量编辑）出现在当代传教士和文学文献中，但是这些来源中的大多数从未出版过。到目前为止，还没有任何彻底注释和评论此材料的版本，提供了详细的索引并忠实地渲染来源的原始措辞。在几个方面，这两卷对科学特别有价值：1。这些问题补充了卷1和2的旅行帐户，为旅行者在铁路和汽船时期之前必须应对的情况和困难提供了令人印象深刻的描述。除了对国家和人民的观察，自然和环境的观察外，它们还揭示了在海外破坏牧师所需的勤奋计划，协调和物流，并且在前往美国的途中遇到了危险。2。许多信件允许对作家的宗教信仰，最内向的感觉和个人思想的洞察力，进入他们的自我认知，以及他们处理个人缺点的方式，以及信仰和宗教怀疑的确定性之间的斗争。3。这些文件不仅允许对会众问题，而且还允许对十八世纪北美的日常生活进行多方面的见解，因为它们与德国和欧洲的条件完全不同。4。亨利·梅尔基奥·穆伦伯格（Henry Melchior Muhlenberg，1711–1787）是哈勒在宾夕法尼亚州的第一任牧师，很少犹豫要直言不讳地对他的同事进行挑剔，但他的同龄人过去对解决其他哈伦斯人的误解或缺点更为谨慎。 Handschuch和Helmuth牧师特别渴望报告其事工或促进学校和高等教育的成功。因此，从哈勒报告中经常出现此类叙述的摘录。5。熟悉Muhlenberg的书信的读者将在第3和4卷中注意到，他的同龄人宽泛了这位领先的Halle牧师个性的轮廓。尽管穆伦贝格（Muhlenberg）在著作中无所不在，但他的同事们在很大程度上避免揭示他们对北美教堂教堂的首席组织者的将军和成就的看法。