“Gar nicht biblisch!” [Not biblical at all!]: Ephesians, Marriage, and Radical Pietism in Eighteenth-Century Germany
This article explores the use of Ephesians 5 and the church as the bride of Christ within a set of 18th-century speeches to the married couples in a radical pietist community known as the Moravian Brethren. I will show how the text is used to undergird a novel ideology of marriage and community stru...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2014
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| In: |
Journal of the bible and its reception
Year: 2014, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 191-207 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Epheserbrief 5
/ Marriage
/ Pietism (motif)
/ Germany
/ History 1700-1800
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| IxTheo Classification: | CE Christian art HC New Testament KBB German language area |
| Further subjects: | B
Ephesians
B Marriage B Pietism |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | This article explores the use of Ephesians 5 and the church as the bride of Christ within a set of 18th-century speeches to the married couples in a radical pietist community known as the Moravian Brethren. I will show how the text is used to undergird a novel ideology of marriage and community structure, both of which are connected with socio-economic change. |
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| ISSN: | 2329-4434 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the bible and its reception
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2014-0018 |