Serving Two Masters 
Subtitle: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727-1801
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780813121390
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Protestantism & Protestant Churches; Social Theology; History - U.S.; Christian Denominations And Sects; United States - State & Local - General; Salem; History: American; North Carolina; Christianity - History - Protestant; Europe - Germany; Winston-Salem; United States - Colonial Period; 18th century; Germany; History; Moravians
Description: "The eighteenth century was a time of significant change in the perception of marriage and family relations, the emphasis of reason over revelation, and the spread of political consciousness. The Unity of the Brethren, known in America as Moravians, experienced the resulting tensions firsthand as they organized their protective religious settlements in Germany.

A group of the Brethren who later settled in Salem, North Carolina, experienced the stresses of cultural and generational conflict when its younger members came to think of themselves as Americans.".

"Serving Two Masters traces the sense of alienation that grew between the American and European Brethren. While the group's leadership usually associated the Enlightenment with rebellion and religious skepticism, the younger Brethren were drawn to its message of individual autonomy and creative expression.

Elisabeth Sommer looks at the impact of this generational and cultural change among Moravians on both sides of the Atlantic and examines the resulting debate over the definition of freedom and faith."--BOOK JACKET.