Hallesche Pastoren in Pennsylvania, 1743–1825. Eine kritische Quellenedition zu ihrer Amtstätigkeit in Nordamerika

即将出版的第5卷、第6卷和第7卷共包含22位不同牧师的信件和其他官方文件：1744-1807年的93封信（第5卷），1744-1807年的105封信（第6卷）和1743-1825年的194封信（第7卷）。其中一些文件的节选，经过编辑，出现在当代传教士和教育文献中。然而，大部分原始材料从未发表过。一个带有详细索引和几乎外交上忠实的复制的完全注释和注释的版本还不存在。这三卷书在几个方面具有很大的研究价值：1。在这些文件中，由于市政当局的大规模定居结构，使牧师的工作条件变得十分困难。这些情况偶尔会导致牧师和会众之间的严重意见分歧。1754年至美国独立战争开始期间的信件生动地反映了宏观政治事件和内部社区发展之间的相互作用。除了有关官方行为的资料外，还有对其他教派和世界观的评论，以及对政治和社会、科学和文化方面的事件和发展的反思。第7卷标志着观点的改变，因为这里出版了所有glahachaschen机构的负责人写给宾夕法尼亚州牧师的信。这些资料不仅提供了黑尔学院院长对宾夕法尼亚和新大陆的看法的重要信息，而且还提供了黑尔学院与路德教会之间的经济联系的具体信息，特别是关于在欧洲为宾夕法尼亚教会建造教堂而收集的捐款的范围、组织和使用情况。这些信件还显示，在哥特希尔夫·奥古斯特·弗兰克和弗里德里希·迈克尔·齐根哈根去世后，牧师和哈雷/伦敦之间活跃的关系迅速减弱。1783年以后，这种活跃的交流基本上变成了金融问题。这些卷的通信给出了一个生动的印象，如何宗教和神学观点之间的牧师在宾夕法尼亚州和神学家在德国分歧；新词倾向在德国日益增长的影响一再受到谴责。这种不断扩大的差距也解释了为什么宾夕法尼亚州的牧师们不愿意请黑尔帮忙填补空缺的教区职位。日益扩大的差距加强了宾夕法尼亚州路德教会牧师推动独立教会发展的倾向，从而使宾夕法尼亚州的会众摆脱对欧洲的依赖。

The volumes 5, 6 and 7 to be published contain letters and other official documents from a total of 22 different pastors: 93 letters from the years 17 44-1807 (volume 5), 105 letters also from the years 1744-1807 (volume 6) and 194 letters from the years 1743-1825 (volume 7). Excerpts from some of these documents appeared, edited, in contemporary missionary and edification literature. However, most of the source material has never been published. A completely annotated and annotated edition with detailed indexes and an almost diplomatically faithful reproduction does not yet exist. The three volumes are of great value for research in several respects:1. In the documents the difficult working conditions for the pastors, which resulted from the large settlement structure of the municipalities, become clear. These conditions occasionally led to serious differences of opinion between the pastors and their congregations. The letters between 1754 and the beginning of the American Revolution give a vivid impression of the interplay of macro-political events and inner-community developments. In addition to information on official acts, there are remarks on other denominations and world views as weil as reflections on events and developments in politics and society, in science and culture.2. Volume 7 marks a change of perspective because here are published all the letters of the directors of the Glauchaschen institutions to the pastors in Pennsylvania. They not only provide important information about the ideas of the Halle directors about Pennsylvania and the New World, but also concrete information about the financial ties between Halle and the Lutheran congregations, especially about the scope, organization and use of the donations collected in Europe for the construction of churches in the Pennsylvanian congregations. The correspondence also shows how quickly the lively relations between the pastors and Halle/London diminished after the death of Gotthilf August Francke and FriedrichMichael Ziegenhagen. After 1783 the lively exchange was essentially reduced to financial matters.3. The correspondence of the volumes gives a vivid impression of how the religious and theological views between the pastors in Pennsylvania and the theologians in Germany diverged; again and again the growing influence of neologistic tendencies in Germany was deplored. This increasing gap also explains the reluctance of the pastors in Pennsylvania to ask Halle for help in filling vacant parish posts. The increasing gap strengthened the tendencies of the Lutheran pastors in Pennsylvania to advance the development of an independent church and thus free the Pennsylvanian congregations from their dependence on Europe.