A History of the Moravian Church

Name: A History of the Moravian Church
Author: J. E. Hutton

Joseph Edmund Hutton (1868–1937) was an English Moravian minister and historian. He contributed the Moravian articles to the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica and later pastored the Fairfield Moravian Church near Manchester from 1922 to 1934. His A History of the Moravian Church (1909) — the work in our library — traces the Brethren from Hus and the Bohemian Unity through Zinzendorf's renewal at Herrnhut; he followed it with A History of Moravian Missions (1922).

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First published: 1909
Category: Church History
Length: 162k words · about 11 hours
Chapters: 45

About this book

J. E. Hutton's history of the Moravian Church, published in 1909. Hutton traces the Brethren from their Hussite roots in Bohemia, through near-extinction, to the renewed church at Herrnhut under Count Zinzendorf and its worldwide missions. A standard account of a small church with an outsized place in evangelical history.

Preface
Chapter I. The Rising Storm
Chapter II. The Burning of Hus.
Chapter III. The Welter, 1415–1434.
Chapter IV. Peter of Chelcic, 1419–1450.
Chapter V. Gregory the Patriarch and the Society of Kunwald, 1457–1473.
Chapter VI. Luke of Prague and the High Church Reaction, 1473–1530. 🔒
Chapter VII. The Brethren at Home. 🔒
Chapter VIII. John Augusta and His Policy, 1531–1548. 🔒
Chapter IX. The Brethren in Poland, 1548–1570. 🔒
Chapter X. The Martyr-Bishop, 1548–1560. 🔒
Chapter XI. The Last Days of Augusta, 1560–1572. 🔒
Chapter XII. The Golden Age, 1572–1603. 🔒
Chapter XIII. The Letter of Majesty, 1603–1609. 🔒
Chapter XIV. The Downfall, 1616–1621. 🔒
Chapter XV. The Day of Blood at Prague. 🔒
Chapter XVI. Comenius and the Hidden Seed, 1627–1672. 🔒
Chapter I. The Youth of Count Zinzendorf, 1700–1722. 🔒
Chapter II. Christian David, 1690–1722. 🔒
Chapter III. The Founding of Herrnhut, 1722–1727. 🔒
Chapter IV. Life at Herrnhut. 🔒
Chapter V. The Edict of Banishment, 1729–1736. 🔒
Chapter VI. The Foreign Missions and Their Influence. 🔒
Chapter VII. The Pilgrim Band, 1736–1743. 🔒
Chapter VIII. The Sifting Time, 1743–1750. 🔒
Chapter IX. Moravians and Methodists, 1735–1742. 🔒
Chapter X. Yorkshire and the Settlement System. 🔒
Chapter XI. The Labours of John Cennick, 1739–1755. 🔒
Chapter XII. The Appeal to Parliament, 1742–1749. 🔒
Chapter XIII. The Battle of the Books, 1749–1755. 🔒
Chapter XIV. The American Experiments, 1734–1762. 🔒
Chapter XV. The Last Days of Zinzendorf, 1755–1760. 🔒
Chapter I. The Church and Her Mission, or the Three Constitutional Synods, 1760–1775. 🔒
Chapter II. The Fight for the Gospel; or, Moravians and Rationalists, 1775–1800. 🔒
Chapter III. A Fall and a Recovery, 1800–1857. 🔒
Chapter IV. The British Collapse, 1760–1801. 🔒
Chapter V. The British Advance, 1801–1856. 🔒
Chapter VI. The Struggle in America, 1762–1857. 🔒
Chapter VII. The Separation of the Provinces, 1857–1899. 🔒
Book Four. The Modern Moravians. 🔒
Section I. Moravian Principles 🔒
Section II. The Moravians in Germany 🔒
Section III. The Moravians in Great Britain 🔒
Section IV. The Moravians in America. 🔒
Bonds of Union 🔒