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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.
Two Hundred Years of History of the Moravian Church at Schoeneck 1961: Henry L. Williams: Our Moravian Hymnal and How We Got It 1960: Edwin W. Kortz: The Liturgical Development of the American Moravian Church 1960: John Fliegel: The Influence of Zinzendorf on the Present-Day Moravian Church 1959: Samuel V. Gapp: Philip H. Gapp, Home Missionary ...
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 ...
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