Between Sardis and Philadelphia: The Life and World of Pietist Court Preacher Conrad BröskeDouglas H. Shantz This study examines the life and world of Conrad BrAske (1660-1713), Court Preacher in Offenbach/Mayn. His claim to fame lies in a ten year period between 1694 and 1704 in which this Marburg-trained pastor became a prolific author, polemicist and promoter of chiliastic writings, thanks to a meeting with Thomas Beverley in 1693 and the baptism of a Muslim convert in 1694. BrAske lived a complex existence a oebetween Sardis and Philadelphia, a as a Reformed court preacher and Philadelphian chiliast. His two-sided experience was actually the norm among the Pietists, including so-called radicals. Life between paradigms was the German way of being radical in early modern times due to a lack of religious toleration compared to England and the Netherlands. BrAskea (TM)s story belongs to the rise of a oeEarly Evangelicalisma that W.R. Ward has recently discussed. |
Contents
Chapter One Family and Student Life 16601682 | 3 |
Chapter Two Bröskes Educational Travels 16831686 | 27 |
The Life and World of a Late Seventeenth Century German Court Preacher | 47 |
A Picture of Innovation and Conformity in Pietist Preaching | 69 |
THE PHILADELPHIAN CHILIAST | 91 |
Chapter Five Turkish Baptisms in the Ysenburg Court in the 1690s | 93 |
Chapter Six Conrad Bröske Thomas Beverley and the Coming Millennial Kingdom | 117 |
Chapter Seven Eight Dialogues between a Politician and a Theologian 16981700 | 163 |
Chapter Nine Dispute with the Reformed Preachers in Elberfeld 17041706 | 221 |
Chapter Ten The Literary Career of Conrad Bröske | 235 |
Conclusion | 251 |
Appendices | 261 |
Appendix Two Overview of the BröskeDippel Feud 17001702 | 269 |
Appendix Three Conrad Bröskes Dispute with the Reformed Preachers in Elberfeld 17041706 | 273 |
Appendix Four Conrad Bröskes Publications and Writings 16921710 | 279 |
Bibliography | 291 |
CONTROVERSY AND WITHDRAWAL | 185 |
Chapter Eight Feud with Johann Konrad Dippel 17001702 | 187 |
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