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.

接下来将出版的第 3 卷和第 4 卷是 DFG 资助的项目的成果，题为“北美的哈勒牧师、德国定居者和路德教会：1740-1820 年信件和期刊的批判版和学术探索”。每卷包含两位牧师的信件和其他官方文件：120 项可追溯至 1744 年至 1763 年（第 3 卷）和1751 年至 1824 年的 137 篇文章（第 4 卷）中的一些信件和文件摘录，如果经过大量编辑，出现在当代传教士和教化文献中，但其中大多数资料迄今为止从未出版过。该材料存在任何经过​​彻底注释和评论的版本，提供了详细的索引并忠实地呈现了来源的原始措辞。这两卷在几个方面对学术具有特别的价值：1。第一卷和第二卷，这些问题对铁路和汽船时代之前旅行者必须应对的条件和困难进行了令人印象深刻的描述，除了对国家和人民、自然和环境的观察之外，它们还揭示了勤奋的计划、派遣牧师到海外所需的协调和后勤工作，以及传教士在前往美国的途中所面临的危险。2.许多信件可以让我们深入了解作者的宗教信仰、内心感受和个人想法，以及他们的自我认知。并进入他们的方式处理个人缺点以及信仰的确定性与宗教疑虑之间的斗争。3. 这些文件不仅使人们能够对教会问题，而且还能对十八世纪北美的日常生活进行多方面的洞察，因为它们与德国和美国的情况进行了对比。欧洲则完全不同。4. 哈勒在宾夕法尼亚州的第一位牧师亨利·梅尔基奥尔·米伦伯格（Henry Melchior Muhlenberg，1711-1787）毫不犹豫地直率地批评他的同事，而他的同辈在对待别人时则更加谨慎。哈伦修斯牧师和赫尔穆斯牧师特别热衷于报道他们的事工或促进学校教育和高等教育的成功，因此，此类叙述的摘录经常出现在《哈勒报告》中。熟悉穆伦伯格信件的读者会注意到。在第 3 卷和第 4 卷中，他的同行们普遍没有对这位哈勒主要牧师的个性进行任何描述。对他作为北美教会路德教主要组织者的指挥和成就的看法。