Briefe in niederländischer Sprache. (Abt. V/8) Unknown - 1982

Gottengen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982. (GER) No markings, Fine; no dust jacket possibly as published. Green cloth with gold titles, xx, 312pp, index of persons. This is volume 8 is the series Texte zur Geschichte des Pietismus im auftrag der Historischen Kommission zur Erforschung des Pietismus, and consists of 203 letters written by Tersteegen from 1733 to 1768. The text is in German with the text of the letters in Dutch.Tersteegen was a German Reformed religious writer, born at Moers, at that time the capital of a countship belonging to the house of Orange-Nassau , which formed a Protestant enclave in the midst of a Roman Catholic country. He came under the influence of Wilhelm Hoffman, a pietistic revivalist, and devoted himself to religious writing. He is amajor influence on radical Pietism. (2.2 JM HOJ 303/1. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".