Union Church also known as Eby Union Church or Strickler Church Cemetery / Location, 722 East from Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, to Strickler Road, and then north on Strickler for 1/2 mile. Rapho Township, Lancaster County
x, 330 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Early American studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-298) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the challenge of radical religion -- I: Religion and gender -- Radical religion in a colonial context -- Gender and confessional order in the Protestant world -- II: The Moravian challenge -- The challenge to gender order -- The ecumenical challenge -- III: Religious violence and the defense of order -- The Orthodox response -- The confrontation in the middle colonies -- Religious violence erupts -- Conclusion: The limits of radical religion in America.
Summary
"In the middle of the Great Awakening, a group of religious radicals called Moravians came to North America from Germany to pursue ambitious missionary goals. How did the Protestant establishment react to the efforts of this group, which allowed women to preach, practiced alternative forms of marriage, sex, and family life, and believed Jesus could be female? Aaron Spencer Fogleman explains how these views, as well as the Moravians' missionary successes, provoked a vigorous response by Protestant authorities on both sides of the Atlantic." [from the publisher]
CD for these records located at (MD 285.8 F527L CD).
"These records have been abstracted from the actual handwritten records of the First Reformed Church."
"This is a series of volumes covering the period 1730-1980...This volume is not all inclusive, as to do so would require 10-12 volumes alone and would be repetitive. It is a volume with a select number of years, spread over the 250 years of the Church."
Rineer's "Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County" page 195 #2.
translated and edited by Debra D. Smith and Frederick S. Weiser.
ISBN
1558560092 (vol. 1)
1558562141 (vol. 2)
1558562834 (vol. 3)
Place of Publication
Apollo, PA
Publisher
Closson Press,
Date of Publication
1988-
Physical Description
v. <1-5 > : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
v. 1. 1730-1767 -- v. 2. 1767-1782 -- v. 3. 1782-1796 -- v. 4. 1797-1810 - v. 5 burial records
Summary
Volume 5 includes a long exposition detailing the following: 1) Location of cemeteries used by Trinity Members. This section describes and provides histories of 30 different cemeteries in south central Pennsylvania; 2) Miscellaneous notes on burials of Trinity's pastors; 3) Notable persons at Trinity; 4) Inscriptons of gravestones at the Trinity graveyard. Photos of gravestones in the Memorial Wall are also displayed; 5) Trinity gravestones at Landis Valley. Some of the old graveyard stones are stored at Landis Valley Museum. A listing along with some photographs are reproduced here; 6) There are several sections that attempt to accurately catalog all the graves at the old graveyard.
