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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Breul
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Pietismus 18.Jhd.
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
3 | 25
Requirements / organisational issues:
The seminar will take place together with Dr Johannes Burkhardt, historian and archivist, one of the best experts on radical Pietism.
The seminar will take the form of four study days (6h each), two of which will be organised as excursions leading to centres of radical Pietism:
- Bad Berleburg (county of Sayn-Wittgenstein), a centre of many radical groups and individuals around 1700 and 1730, and
- to Herrnhaag near Büdingen (county of Isenburg-Büdingen), since 1738 the seat of the Herrnnuter Brüdergemeine in its most radical phase. The Isenburg counties were also home to various radical groups and individuals for several decades.
Both counties were a kind of laboratory of modern theology and piety. The remaining seminar days will take place in Mainz.
In the preliminary discussion, the seminar group decides on the exact choice of topics (see contents).
Dates:
- 21 April 12-14 h (preliminary session)
- 26 May 12-18 h Seminar day in Mainz
- 16 June 12-18 h Seminar day on the Herrnhaag near Büdingen
- 30 June 12-18 h Seminar day in Bad Berleburg (castle etc.)
- 14 July 12-18 h Seminar day in Mainz.
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Compulsory attendance:
The legal regulations apply to attendance at the seminar. Active participation requires participation in at least one of the two excursions and active participation in the other seminar days. Non-participation in seminar days can be compensated by taking on short presentations or other written performances.
Contents:
For Ernst Troeltsch, one of the most inspiring Protestant theologians of the early 20th century, it was not the impulses of Martin Luther's theology that led to modernity (which he still saw as largely rooted in the Middle Ages), but humanism and radical representatives. The seminar asks about the significance of radical representatives of the Pietist reform movement in the 17th and 18th centuries for modernity in theology and church. Ideas such as
religious tolerance,
the departure from the traditional doctrine of satisfaction,
the idea of universal reconciliation,
the emphasis on ethics and lifestyle,
the equality of women,
the overcoming of denominational boundaries, and much more were present early in Pietism, especially in its radical varieties.
The exact choice of topics will be decided at the preliminary meeting on 21 April. The topics will be presented, further topics can be suggested. Possible topics include
- Introduction to the history of Pietism and radical Pietism
- Roots of radical Pietism in the 16th and early 17th centuries
- Paracelsus
- Johann Arndt
- Jakob Böhme and Valentin Weigel
- The Counties of Sayn-Wittgenstein
- Countess Hedwig Sophie around 1700 and her son Casimir around 1730
- The Crisis of Corporeality: Eva von Buttlar and her Society
- Simply heterodox in all doctrinal points: Johann Conrad Dippel
- The Role of Women in Radical Pietism
- The Schwarzenau Neutäufer
- Gottfried Arnold and his reassessment of church history
- Radical mystics and mystical spiritualists
- The County of Isenburg-Büdingen and Tolerance (Edict of Tolerance of 1713).
- the Moravians on the Herrnhaag (1738-1750)
- ...
Recommended reading list:
Hans Schneider: Der radikale Pietismus, Teil 1, Geschichte des Pietismus Bd. 1, ed. by Martin Brecht etc., Göttingen 1993, 391-437; Teil 2, Geschichte des Pietismus Bd. 2, ed. by Martin Brecht etc, Göttingen 1995, 107-197.
Relevant articles from the Pietismus Handbuch, ed. by Wolfgang Breul and Thomas Hahn-Bruckart.
Digital teaching:
The seminar takes place in the presence.
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