Johann Conrad Beissel and the Ephrata Community: Mystical and Historical Texts

by Conrad Beissel

This work explores one of the more radical and eclectic manifestations of the world of pietism in the Middle Colonies, the movement centred in Pennsylvania's Ephrata Community, a semi-monastic colony founded in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889466580
• ISBN13: 9780889466586
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 393 Pages