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Between Sardis and Philadelphia: The Life and World of Pietist Court Preacher Conrad Bröske

Between Sardis and Philadelphia: The Life and World of Pietist Court Preacher Conrad Bröske

Shantz, Douglas

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, Book 133

Religious BiographiesGeneral ChristianityGerman History

ISBN10: 9004169687
ISBN13: 9789004169685
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 29 2008
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
This study examines the life and world of Conrad Bröske (1660-1713), Court Preacher in Offenbach/Mayn. His claim to fame lies in a ten year period between 1694 and 1704 in which this Marburg-trained pastor became a prolific author, polemicist and promoter of chiliastic writings, thanks to a meeting with Thomas Beverley in 1693 and the baptism of a Muslim convert in 1694. Bröske lived a complex existence between Sardis and Philadelphia, as a Reformed court preacher and Philadelphian chiliast. His two-sided experience was actually the norm among the Pietists, including so-called radicals. Life between paradigms was the German way of being radical in early modern times due to a lack of religious toleration compared to England and the Netherlands. Bröske's story belongs to the rise of Early Evangelicalism that W.R. Ward has recently discussed.

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