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  Syllabus for German Immigrant Culture in America: Lesson 7
The Moravian Church is one of the oldest Christian branches and was established in 1458, years before the time of the general Protestant Reformation.
The church was known originally as the Unitas Fratrum (Unity of the Brethren) and is sometimes called the Moravian Brethren.
This church was founded by Caspar Schwenkfelder von Ossig (1498-1561), a nobleman from Silesia who was raised as a Catholic but eagerly joined the Protestant Reformation.
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 German Americana: Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
• Thomas Hartley (1709?–84) was a priest of the Church of England and an Evangelical whose interest in mysticism took him away from that party and ended in his becoming the translator of Swedenborg.
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The work in hand is a substantial treatise of Schwenkfelder doctrine and a critical interpretation of the Gospels.
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 The Danish Peace Academy, Terp, Holger: Peace in Print, - Introduction
During the history of the Christian churches, the pacifist message became an important part in mostly protestant sects which are commonly now known as "historical peace churches", where the Society of Friends and other pacifist religious groups played a big role, but the history of pacifism is much older than that
Through the years, the main stream of the established Christian church societies have supported their government's policy of war even though a message of pacifism can be found in both the Old and the New Testament
The following is a list of peace or pacifist churches which were established before the foundation of the first peace movements in 1814 which are listed as well as the date of their founding.
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 Pennsylvania DutchReferences
History of the Hershey Mennonite Church of Salisbury, Township, Lancaster County, Pa The Life of a Congregation, 1854-1979: The History of Pine Grove Mennonite Church, Bowmansville, Pa., New Holland, PA:Weaver''s Printing Center
The Lutheran Church of New Holland, Pennsylvania 1730-1980, Weiser, Frederick, S. Two Centuries of Grace,(history of Cedar Grove Presbyterian), Smythe, William S. History of the Brethern, Napoleon, Noel, 2 vols.
Berks County Church Records of the 18th Century, 4 vol.
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