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| Spener worked hard at establishing Pietism, and Francke created world-wide networks through his Halle institutions. Here is the previous Halle Pietism link. |
I will add this link to the previous Halle Pietism post. https://www.francke-halle.de/luther2017englisch-a-7762.html
In 1705, the SPCK published the English translation of Francke’s most important prospectus under the title "Pietas Hallensis" and supported the dissemination of Halle Pietism in the British colonies in North America and India. Halle missionaries were active in Tranquebar, Southern India as of 1706. Based on Francke’s model, they founded social institutions and schools there, including the first school for girls on the Indian subcontinent. Letterpress printing was established on Indian soil from here with a complete printing house staffed by personnel from Halle.
Francke became interested in North America at an early stage and corresponded with the Puritan Cotton Mather (1663-1728) in New England. Salzburg Lutherans under the leadership of Halle pastors later settled in the colony of Georgia. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), who was sent from Halle, became patriarch of the Lutheran Church in North America from 1742.
The Halle Pietists maintained close contacts with the Protestant nobility in southern Germany, Thuringia, Saxony, Brandenburg and the Harz region. The princes and counts in these regions were frequently under the direct authority of the emperor and therefore, in accordance with the Peace of Augsburg, retained religious sovereignty in their lands. Many of these nobles were influenced by Pietism and brought Francke’s students to their territory as officials or pastors, who then improved local administration as well as the welfare and school system. In this way, the Pietist reform ideas influenced entire dominions.
Francke strongly supported the Protestant nobility in Silesia in their denominational disputes with the Catholic sovereigns, the Habsburgs. A "Privy Council" comprised of numerous central German nobles supported Francke in the course of these disputes.
Like many other nobles, Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff (1648-1726) had her grandson, Imperial Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700-1760) educated at Francke’s Royal Paedagogium. Count Nikolaus then emerged as founder of the Moravian Church and shaped his own version of Pietism.
Und ve go von Zinzendorf zu Martin Stephan und das Dr. CFW Walther. Ja, Stephan had a church devoted to Pietism, built on land given by Zinzendorf.
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| Here is the previous Halle Pietism link. |
