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The Bethlehem Diary, Volume 1:  1742-1744.  Hamilton, Kenneth G., editor and translator.  Bethlehem:  Archives of the Moravian Church, 1971.  An annotated translation of part of the communal diary of the early Moravians in North America.

The Bethlehem Diary, Volume 2: 1744-1745.  Hamilton, Kenneth G., and Lothar Madeheim, translators. Vernon H. Nelson, Otto Dreydoppel, Jr., and Doris Rohland Yob, editors.  Bethlehem: Moravian Archives, 2001.

 “The Bohemian Confession, 1535.”  Jaroslav Pelikan, translator.  In Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition.  3 volumes, I:796-833.  Jaroslav Pelikan and Valerie Hotchkiss, editors.  New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003.

“The Brethren’s Catechism, Translated and Edited from the 1523 German Version.”  Craig Atwood, translator and editor.  Journal of Moravian History 2 (2007):  91-118.

Chelčický, Petr.   “On the Triple Division of Society.”  Howard Kaminsky, translator.  Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History 1 (1964).

Comenius John Amos. The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart. Howard Louthan and Andrea Sterk, translators.  New York: Paulist Press, 1998.  Volume 90 of the Classics of Western Spirituality.

--------.  “The Ratio Disciplinae of the Ancient Unity.”  C. Daniel Crews, translator. http://www.moravianarchives.org/images/pdfs/Ratio.pdf

--------.  The School of Infancy.  Ernest Eller, translator.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1956.

Dejiny Jednoty Bratrske.  Joseph Theodor Müller, editor.  Praha:  Nakl. Jednoty Bratrske, 1923.  “Documents of the Unity of Brethren.”

“The Four Articles of Prague.”  Jaroslav Pelikan, translator.  In Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition.  3 volumes, I:791-795.   Jaroslav Pelikan and Valerie Hotchkiss, editors.  New Haven, Yale University Press, 2003.

Frueauff, John Frederick.  Freddy’s War: The Civil War Letters of John Frederick Frueauff.  Daniel R. Gilbert, editor.   Bethlehem: Moravian College, 2006.  Frueauff was a Bethlehem Moravian who served as an officer in the Union Army.

Gregor, Christian.  Choral-Buch:  A Facsimile of the First Edition of 1784.  James Boeringer, editor.  Winston-Salem and Bethlehem:  Moravian Music Foundation Press, 1984. With an introduction by Martha Asti and a translation of the author’s preface by Karl Kroeger.

Hagen, Francis Florentine.  Old Landmarks Or, Faith and Practice of the Moravian Church, at the Time of Its Revival and Restoration, and Twenty Years After.  Bethlehem, Pennsylvania:  Hagen, 1886.  Excerpts from important primary documents in the early history of the Renewed Moravian Church.

Haidt, John Valentine.  “John Valentine Haidt’s Treatise on Art.”  Vernon H. Nelson, editor and translator.  Journal of Moravian History 3 (Fall 2007):  101-139.

Hus, John.  The Letters of John Hus.  Matthew Spinka, editor and translator.  Totowa, New Jersey:  Rowman and Littlefield, 1972.

--------.  “On Simony.”  Matthew Spinka, translator.  Advocates of Reform.  Philadelphia:  Westminster Press, 1953.  Library of Christian Classics, vol. 14.

The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees.  Vol. I:  1805-1813.  Vol. II:  1814-1821.  Rowena McClinton, editor.  Lincoln, Nebraska:  University of Nebraska Press, 2007.  Missionary diaries.

Moravians in Upper Canada:  The Diary of the Indian Mission of Fairfield on the Thames, 1792-1813.  Translated from the original German script and edited with an introduction by Linda Sabathy-Judd.  Toronto:  The Champlain Society, 1999.

Oldendorp, C. G. A.  History of the Mission of the Evangelical Brethren on the Caribbean Islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John (1770).  Arnold Highfield and Vladimir Barac, translators and editors.  Ann Arbor, Michigan: Karoma Publishers, 1987.

Peifer, James A.  Bethlehem Boy: The Civil War Letters & Diary of James A. Peifer.   Carolyn Abel and Patricia McAndrews, editors.  Bethlehem:  Moon Trail Books, 2007.  The experience of Peifer (1838-1877) illustrates the transition of the Moravian Church in the 19th century from pacifist sect to American denomination.

Periodical Accounts Relating to the Missions of the Church of the United Brethren Established Among the Heathen.  London: 1789-1930.   A journal of missionary reports.

Records of the Moravians in North Carolina.  Adelaide L. Fries, et al, editors.  11 volumes.  Raleigh:  North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1922-1969.  Excerpts and translations of materials from the Archives of the Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, covering the years 1752-1879.  A twelfth volume, edited by Daniel Crews and Lisa Bailey, appeared in 2000.

Ruether, Rosemary Radford, and Rosemary Skinner Keller, editors.  Women and Religion in America, Volume 2:  The Colonial and Revolutionary War Periods.  San Francisco:  Harper & Row, 1983.  Contains translations of primary source materials by Moravian women.

Spangenberg, August Gottlieb.  An Exposition of Christian Doctrine, as Taught in the Protestant Church of the United Brethren, or Unitas Fratrum (London, 1796).  Third English edition.   Winston-Salem:  Board of Christian Education of the Southern Province of the Moravian Church, 1959.  An English translation of Spangenberg's 1779 work of systematic theology Idea Fidei Fratrum.

Tannenberg, David.  “The Memoirs of  David Tannenberg.”  Laurence Libin, editor and translator.  Journal of Moravian History 2 (Spring 2007):  118-134.

Zeisberger, David.  The Moravian Missionary Diaries of David Zeisberger, 1772-1781.  Hermann Wellenreuther and Carola Wessel, editors.  Julie Tomberlin Weber, translator.  University Park, Pennsylvania:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.  First published in Germany in 1995 by Akademie Verlag as Herrnhutger Indianer Mission in der Amerikanischen Revolution:  Die Tagebücher von David Zeisberger 1772 bis 1781.

Zinzendorf, Nicholas Ludwig von.  All Needful Gifts: Six Hymns by Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf.  C. Daniel Crews  and Nola Reed Knouse, translators.  Winston-Salem: Moravian Archives and Moravian Music Foundation, 1999.

--------.  Be Now and Evermore Our Head:  Six Hymns by Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf.  C. Daniel Crews and Nola Reed Knouse, translators.  Winston-Salem: Moravian Archives and Moravian Music Foundation, 1996.

--------.  Christian David, Servant of the Lord, Being a Translation of the Memoir of Christian David as Written by Zinzendorf and Translation of Selected Letters and Reports Written by Christian David or Pertaining to Him.  John C. Fliegel, translator.  Vernon H. Nelson, editor.  Bethlehem:  Archives of the Moravian Church, 1962.

--------.  A Collection of Sermons from Zinzendorf’s Pennsylvania Journey, 1741-1742.  Craig D. Atwood, editor.  Julie Tomberlin Weber, translator.  Bethlehem:  Interprovincial Board of Communication, 2001.
 
--------.  Ergänzungsbände zu den Hauptschriften.  14 volumes.  Hildesheim:  Georg Olms Verlag, 1966-1985.  “Volumes supplementary to the major writings.”  The Olms publishing house has done a significant service to Zinzendorf Studies by putting back into print a complete edition of the Count’s writings.  Unfortunately, the procedure followed has been simply to reproduce facsimiles of the 18th-century sources, most of them printed in Gothic script.  There is no systematic pagination, division into sections, or indexing. 

--------.  Führ uns an der Hand.  Gießen and Basel:  Brunnen Verlag, 2000.  “Lead us by the hand” (quoting MBW 799, v. 1).  A small collection of Zinzendorf hymns.

--------.  Hauptschriften.  6 volumes.  Hildesheim:  Georg Olms Verlag, 1962-1977.   “Major writings.”

--------.  Materialien und Dokumente.  Hildesheim:  Georg Olms Verlag, 1979- .  “Evidence and documents.”  32 volumes thus far.  The Olms editors here provide a wealth of material for Zinzendorf scholars:  18th-century writings by friend and foe alike, hymnals and liturgy books, 19th- and 20th-century scholarship on the Count (much of it long out of print), and many other treasures.  Later volumes include critical introductions by contemporary scholars.

-------.  Nine Public Lectures on Important Subjects in Religion. (1746)  George W. Forell, translator and editor.  Iowa City:  University of Iowa Press, 1973.   

 

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