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

北美的霍尔牧师、德国定居者和路德教会。

• 批准号: 387960886
• 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: 2017
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/387960886?language=en
• 关键词: Halle; Pastors; German; Settlers; Lutheran

Volumes 1 and 2, which are to be published, result from an 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". This project aims to publish an eight-volume, commented collection of source material. Volume 1 contains 2 curricula vitae and 11 journals of 2 pastors, dating from 1744 to 1758. Volume 2 includes 14 curricula vitae and 19 journals of 10 pastors, dating from 1746-1784. Most of the sources presented have never been published. Extracts from some of the journals appeared, heavily edited tough, in contemporary missionary and edifying literature. Up to now, there does not exist any edition that is completely annotated, gives numerous cross references, provides detailed indices and is highly faithful to the original wording of the sources.The two volume are of particular value to scholarship in several respects:1. The curricula vitae teil much about the pastors' family and social background. They reveal the cardinal significance that personal relations and informal as much as institutional networks of sponsorship had for a candidate's taking up studies of divinity, entering the ministry, and finally being called to pastoral service overseas.2. The curricula vitae allow intriguing insights into the writers' religious beliefs, innermost feelings, and personal thoughts, into their self-perception, and into their way of handling their own weaknesses and the constant struggles between the certainties of faith and religious doubts. Many such biographical resumes read like personal sketches reflecting an ongoing conflict between the authors's own standards and abilities on the one hand and God's commandments and their superiors' expectations on the other.3. The journals provide multi-facetted insights not only into congregational issues but also into real life in eighteenth-century North America, contrasting it with the conditions in Germany and Europe, which were entirely different. In addition to regular ministerial acts, there are plenty of comments and reflections on other denominations and non-Christian persuasions, on current events in politics and society, or on recent developments in science and culture.4.Usually integrated into the journals, travelogs impressively describe the circumstances and difficulties of traveling on land or at sea prior to the age of steam engines and railways. Besides furnishing indidual observations of the country and its people, of nature and environment, they illustrate how carefully any dispatch of preachers had to be planned and arranged for in advance, and the many dangers the pastors faced on their way to America.

即将出版的第1和第2卷，来自DFG资助的一个项目，题为“哈雷牧师，德国定居者和路德教会在北美：关键版和学术探索的信件和期刊，1740年至1820年”。该项目旨在出版一个八卷本的评论源材料集。第1卷包含2个牧师的2个简历和11个期刊，从1744年到1758年。第二卷包括10位牧师的14份简历和19份期刊，时间从1746年到1784年。大多数资料来源从未发表过。一些期刊的摘录出现在当代传教士和启发性文学中，经过严格编辑。到目前为止，还没有任何版本是完全注释，提供了大量的交叉引用，提供了详细的索引，并高度忠实于原始措辞的来源。这两卷是特别有价值的奖学金在几个方面：1.这些牧师的简历透露了他们的家庭和社会背景。它们揭示了个人关系和非正式的赞助网络以及机构网络对于候选人接受神学研究、进入事工、最后被召到海外牧灵服务的重要意义。2.这些简历让我们对作家的宗教信仰、内心深处的感受和个人思想，对他们的自我认知，对他们处理自己弱点的方式，以及在信仰和宗教怀疑之间不断斗争的方式有了有趣的见解。许多这样的简历读起来像个人素描，反映了作者自己的标准和能力与上帝的诫命和上级的期望之间的持续冲突。这些期刊提供了多方面的见解，不仅对公理问题，而且对18世纪北美的真实的生活，与德国和欧洲的情况完全不同。除了常规的牧师行为外，还有很多关于其他教派和非基督教信仰的评论和思考，关于政治和社会的时事，或者关于科学和文化的最新发展。除了提供对该国及其人民，自然和环境的个人观察外，他们还说明了任何传教士的派遣都必须事先计划和安排，以及牧师在前往美国的途中所面临的许多危险。