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What's New
Faith, Love, Hope
A new history of the Unitas Fratrum — the early Moravian Church
- By C. Daniel Crews, Archivist of the Moravian Church, Southern Province
- 440 pages, hardcover
- 3 maps
- 63 pictures
- timeline keyed to text
- extensive bibliography
- lists of bishops of the Unity and rulers of Bohemia
- $29.95 plus tax
Special features
- A concise account of Christian history from Pentecost to John Hus
- John Hus — his trial and execution
- The birth of the Unity — the early Moravian Church
- Life in the pioneer Protestant church
- Living with Lutherans and other churches
- The Day of Blood —and exile
- John Amos Comenius, the “Last” Moravian bishop
Faith, Love, Hope order form
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Comenius, 1464 ‘Statutes’
debut on Archives web
John
Amos Comenius ( Comenius's Unum Necessarium) and the oldest known “Statutes” (Unity Statutes of 1464) of the early Moravian Church have
joined the growing list of e-books on the Moravian Archives web site,
www.MoravianArchives.org.
Comenius
wrote Unum Necessarium — The One Thing Necessary or The One
Thing Needful — late in life as a testament of his experience and belief as
Europe’s renowned educator and bishop of the Unitas Fratrum. It is in Unum
Necessarium that Comenius used the Moravian motto, “In essentials
unity. . . .” The Rev. Vernon H. Nelson, retired Archivist of
the Northern Province, did this first English translation of Unum
Necessarium, which is now on the Internet 340 years after its first Latin
publication.
Unity
Statutes of 1464 is the Moravian Church’s earliest surviving statement of
faith and practice. Though the Unity had not yet established a ministry,
already it expressed its life in Christ through faith, love, hope, and
stressing a Christian life as the fruits of faith.
Unity Statutes of 1464
Comenius's Unum Necessarium
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