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A History of the Moravian Church; Hutton, J. E. A History of the Moravian Missions (1922) Jarvis, Dale Gilbert. "The Moravian Dead Houses of Labrador, Canada", Communal Societies 21 (2001): 61–77. Langton; Edward. History of the Moravian Church: The Story of the First International Protestant Church (1956)
The Church was established as a reaction to practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Hus wanted to return the Church in Bohemia and Moravia to the practices of early Christianity: performing the liturgy in the language of the people, allowing lay people to receive both the bread and the cup during communion, and eliminating Papal indulgences and ...
[8] (the Christianization of Moravia would also affect Poland, which was Christianized a century later, and where Moravian missionaries were among the early evangelizers). [9] Soon Rastislav succeeded in created a church independent of both the Germans and Constantinople, subordinated directly to the See of Rome. [3]
Rohrer (2001) demonstrates the social history of the community of Wachovia, founded in the North Carolina Piedmont in 1753, illustrates the importance of the beliefs and practices of the Moravians in achieving the integration and acculturation of settlers of different ethnic backgrounds.
Hutton, J E (1909) A History of the Moravian Church, London: Moravian Publication Office; Linyard, Fred, and Tovey, Phillip (1994) Moravian Worship, Nottingham: Grove Books; Podmore, Colin (1998) The Moravian Church in England 1728–1760, Oxford: Clarendon Press; Shawe, C H, DD (1977) The Spirit of the Moravian Church, London: Moravian Book Room
Pages in category "History of the Moravian Church" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Moravian church continued to send missionaries to the Munsee. Under the Dawes Act , the Chippewa-Christian Indian Reservation, as it was known in the 1859 treaty, was allotted to the individual members and descendants of the tribes in separate 160-acre plots.
In 2023, the Moravian Church consists of 19 provinces and several mission fields on four continents. The Unity is bound by the Church Order of the ‘’Unitas Fratrum’’, a document written by the Unity Synod (the highest legislative body within the Moravian Church). [8] The province also runs a number of schools and vocational training ...