The exotic plant : a history of the Moravian Church in Britain, 1742-2000 /

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Main Author: Stead, Geoffrey.
Other Authors: Stead, Margaret.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Werrington : Epworth Press, 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Historical background ; The historiography of the British province of the Unity of the Brethren
  • The eighteenth-century continental brotherhood: Its sources and character.
  • Part two: Evolution of the British provincial character and congregational network ; German religious and cultural asendancy, 1742-c.1780
  • British educationalexpansion and congregational stability, c.1780-c.1883
  • The period of uneasy denominational consolidation, c.1883-1945 (I:1883-1918)
  • The period of uneasy denominational consolidation, c.1883-1945 (I:1919-1945).
  • Part three: Renewed creativity ; The ministry (I): Professional training for provincial ministers and missionaries
  • The ministry (II): Non-stipendiary ministers, and the ministry of women
  • Developments in congregational life since the 1950s
  • Ecumenism and the British province.
  • Part four: Moravianism ; Moravian hymnody and litanies
  • The role of language and symbolism in the life and worship of the Brethren's communities in the British province
  • The origins and rationale of Moravian education
  • communication as a support system.