Church Constitution of the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren
Overview
Credited with starting the modern mission movement and inspiring the events of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, the Moravian Church formed after leader John Huss (Jan Hus) was burned at the stake for promoting church reform. Huss championed such ideas as justification by grace through faith alone, full communion for laypeople, and adoption of the liturgy to the common language of the people. After his death, his followers fought and died to protect those ideas in what came to be known as the Hussite Wars. Like that of the the Waldensians, the history of the Moravian Church is vital to understanding the atmosphere that preceded the Reformation.
Church Constitution of the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren contains the Moravian Church constitution in the original Latin with an English translation, notes, and introduction by Bishop B. Seifferth of the Brethren’s Church.
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Key Features
- Includes the original Latin text followed by a full translation
- Provides text well suited for students
- Contains a thorough introduction of key points in the history of the Moravian Church
Contents
- Concerning the Order of the Whole Unity in General—Order of Things—Order of Persons—Among the People—Civil Elders—Almoners—Ædiles—The Ministers—Acoluths—Their Duties—Deacons—Their Duties—The Antistites or Seniors—Their Duties in Common—Duties of the President—Of the Secretary—Of the Conseniors
- Synods and the Rite of Ordination—Synods—Ordination of Acoluths—Of Deacons—Of Ministers—Inauguration of Ministers—Manner of Appointing Ministers to Churches—Ministers to Seek Advice of Their Seniors—Ordination of Conseniors—Ordination of Antistites
- Order of the Ministrations of Form of the Church Rites—Preaching—Baptism—Mode of Receiving Noviciates—The Lord’s Supper—Marriage—Visitation of the Sick and Burial of the Dead—Festival Days—Prayer Days—Fasting—Alms
- Domestic Order of the Ministries—Offices Held in Common
- Domestic Order of the Hearers
- Visitations—Ordination of Lay Elders—Dedication of a Church
- Order and Degrees of Church Discipline
- Conclusion
Praise for the Print Edition
The editor of this volume deserves the thanks of all who are interested in the spread of a purer Gospel faith and discipline, and we cordially commend its candid and careful perusal to all who wish to obtain many useful hints regarding the most appropriate means that may be adopted in furthering both the inward and outward work of the house of God.
—Biblical Notes and Queries
Both those who are prepared, and those who are not, to accept the Moravian claim to the apostolic succession, will be glad to get this help from the study of a system of discipline, which Luther, Vergerio, and Thorndike, concurred in preferring to every other in Christendom—framed, before the appearance of Luther, by a body who partly defended their peculiarities on the grounds of Greek extraction and Wycliffite teaching, and at this day maintained, in most of its features, throughout the wide-spread missions which owe to it (instrumentally speaking) both their existence and success.
—Colonial Church Chronicle
Product Details
- Title: Church Constitution of the Bohemian and Moravian Brethren
- Author: B. Seifferth
- Publisher: W. Mallalieu and Co.
- Publication Date: 1866
- Pages: 200