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| Format | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Wood, Ralph |
| Title, Analytic | Lutheran and Reformed, Pennsylvania German Style |
| Author, Monographic | Wood, Ralph |
| Title, Monographic | The Pennsylvania Germans |
| Date of Publication | 1942 |
| Location in Work | 87-102 |
| Abstract | Faith was strong in the Pennsylvania German farmer. The belief in a supernatural power, in God, was natural to him who felt that he could plow and plant, but that only God made his work produce grain and fruit. The churches tried to give form to this faith. But they themselves, in the solidly Pennsylvania German countryside at least, were also molded by the farmer's beliefs and customs, by him as an individual and as a member of his community. The rural Pennsylvania German churches, then, were a synthesis of the missionary endeavor of the churches and the Pennsylvania German folk spirit. Sometimes the two would be in complete harmony, sometimes they would be at odds, representing a dualism continually resolved and recreated at all periods of American history. The churches in Pennsylvania Germanland were principally the Lutheran and Reformed Churches. |
| Call Number | MKI/SHS F 160 .G3 W66 |
| MKI Terms | Pennsylvania Germans/ Churches/ Lutheran Church/ Reformed Church/ German Americans -- Pennsylvania |