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和第4页，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：信件和期刊的批判版和学术探索，1740-1820”。两卷都包含了两位牧师的信件和其他官方文件：1744年至1763年的120项（第三卷）和1751年至1824年的137项（第四卷）。一些摘录的信件和文件，如果大量编辑，出现在当代传教士和启发性的文学，但大多数这些来源从来没有出版过。到目前为止，还没有任何彻底的注释和评论版的材料，提供详细的索引和忠实地呈现原始措辞的来源。这两卷是特别有价值的奖学金在几个方面：1。这些问题补充了第1卷和第2卷中的旅行记录，对铁路和汽船时代之前旅行者必须科普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、自然和环境的观察外，它们还揭示了将牧师派遣到海外所需的勤奋计划、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.许多信件允许有趣的洞察作家的宗教信仰，内心深处的感觉，和个人的想法，到他们的自我感知，并进入他们的方式处理个人缺点和信仰之间的斗争和宗教怀疑。这些文件允许多方面的见解，不仅进入公理问题，但也进入日常生活在十八世纪的北美，因为他们是对比的条件，在德国和欧洲是完全不同的。4.亨利梅尔基奥尔穆伦贝格（Muhlenberg，1711-1787）是哈勒在宾夕法尼亚州的第一位牧师，他直言不讳地批评他的同事们，而他的同事们在处理其他哈勒教派的错误或缺点时往往更加谨慎。Handschuch牧师和Helmande牧师特别渴望报告他们的事工或促进学校教育和高等教育的成功。因此，《哈勒报告》中经常出现这种叙述的摘录。熟悉穆伦贝格书信的读者会注意到，在1963年和1964年，他的同行们对这位哈勒牧师的个性进行了广泛的刻画。虽然穆伦贝格是无所不在的，在他们的著作，他的同事们在很大程度上回避透露他们的意见，他的将军和成就的主要组织者教会路德教在北美。