A Time of Sifting

Contents

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Prologue: The Hole

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Chapter One - Introduction

Chapter Two - Herrnhut and Herrnhaag

Chapter Three - Historiography

Chapter Four - The Crisis Revealed

Chapter Five - Characteristics of the Sifting Time

Chapter Six - Songs of the Sifting

Chapter Seven - The Actual Sifting

Chapter Eight - Aftermath of the Sifting

Chapter Nine - The Post-Zinzendorf Era

Chapter Ten - What was the Sifting Time?

Chapter Eleven - The Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“No one knows the sources better than Paul Peucker, and the story he tells here of the Sichtungszeit is extraordinarily well crafted. Addressing long-held misconceptions, Peucker reconstructs from the surviving records a rich and at times startling account of this critical juncture in Moravian history. His book will change the way we look at Zinzendorf, the Moravian movement, and the role of radical religion in Pietism. His historical sensitivity and interpretive verve open new avenues for understanding religion and culture in the eighteenth century.”

—Jonathan Strom, Emory University