Geschichtsbewusstsein und Zukunftserwartung in Pietismus und Erweckungsbewegung

Wolfgang Breul, Jan Carsten Schnurr

These nineteen essays by cultural, literary, theological and church historians deal with conceptions of the future, eschatological expectations and interpretations of Christian and general history within the two great reform movements of 17th to 19th century continental Protestantism: Pietism and the Evangelical Awakening. Apart from general perspectives on eschatology, historiography and historical thought during these centuries, the volume offers insights into the outlook on the future of Philipp Jakob Spener, August Hermann Francke, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, the Radical Pietists, and several others, into the conception of history of Halle Pietists, the Württemberg Awakening, and Heinrich and Leopold Ranke, and into collective biographies, Moravian Memoirs and the Pietist practice of drawing lots. Zeitwahrnehmung, Geschichtsbewusstsein und Zukunftserwartung sind in den...