Wednesday, August 24, 2011

2.00 p.m. Welcome
Thomas Müller-Bahlke

2.30 p.m.
First Key Lecture
Chair: Hermann Wellenreuther
Hartmut Lehmann
The World According to the Christian People in Europe, 1711 – 1730

3.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m. Coffee Break

4.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.
1st Session
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg’s Experiences in Germany
Chair: Hans Otte

Manfred Jakubowski-Tiessen
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg and Pietism in the Electorate of Hanover, 1711-1739

Thomas Kaufmann
Johannes Oporin, Muhlenberg’s Praeceptor at the University of Göttingen

Udo Sträter
Gotthilf August Francke, Muhlenberg’s Praeceptor at the Glauchaschen Anstalten

7.00 p.m.
Public Lecture
Generalkonsul a.D. Hans-Jürgen Wendler
Die Bedeutung Mühlenbergs für die deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen heute

Evening Reception

Thursday, August 25, 2011

9.00 a.m.
Second Key Lecture
Chair: A. Gregg Roeber
Hermann Wellenreuther
The World According to the Christian People in North America around 1740

10.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. Coffee Break

10.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
2nd Session
Pietisms in North America
Chair: A. Gregg Roeber

Jeffrey Bach
The World according to Conrad Beissel and the Radical Survivors of Wissahickon:
Ephrata in the Making

Mark Häberlein
Lutherans and Reformed in North America around 1740

Craig D. Atwood
Count Nikolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf´s Controversial American Plan and his Encounter with Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, December 30, 1742/43

1.00 p.m . - 2.30 p.m. Lunch

2.30 p.m.
Third Key Lecture
Chair: Peter Vogt
Frank Lambert
Pietas Hallensis and the American Great Awakening

3.30 p.m– 4.00 p.m. Coffee Break

4.00. p.m. – 7.00 p.m.
3rd Session
Muhlenberg Fights Libertinism and Shapes the Lutheran
CHURCH, 1743 – 1765
Chair: Peter Vogt

Jan Stievermann
The American First Awakening and its Perception on the European Continent: The Example of Johann Adam Steinmetz

James Duffin
Muhlenberg’s Idea of a German Lutheran Church: The Destructive Struggles in Germantown and Philadelphia with their Constructive Results as the Basis for a Lasting Church Organisation

Wolfgang Splitter
Muhlenberg the Politician in Pennsylvania, 1743 – 1775

Friday, August 26, 2011

9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.
Fourth Key Lecture
Chair: Volker Depkat
A. Gregg Roeber
Atlantic Lutheranism and Henry Melchior Muhlenberg in a Revolutionary World

10.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. Coffee Break

10.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
4th Session
FROM TURMOIL TO REVOLUTION: PENNSYLVANIA 1764 – 1787
Chair: Volker Depkat

Nancy Rhoden
Is God American or English: The English Clergy as Political Agents of Loyalism and Revolutionary Order

Lisa Minardi
Pastors & Patriots: The Muhlenberg Family and the War for American Independence

Mark W. Oldenburg
Into the Future: Henry Melchior Muhlenberg and the first American Lutheran Hymnal
1786/1787

Dianne McMullen, Wolfgang Miersemann
“Singstunde”: Some of the Most Frequently Cited Hymns in Muhlenberg´s Journals

1.00 p.m. – 2.30 p.m Lunch

2.30 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.
5th Session
Lay People and the American Lutheran Church in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chair: N.N.

Christopher Voigt-Goy, Wuppertal
Lay People in the Amtskirche: The European Lutheran Church in North America in the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries

Karl Krueger, Philadelphia
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg’s United Congregations in Pennsylvania in the Twentieth Century: The Survival of Muhlenberg’s Constitution

4.30 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. Coffee Break

5.00 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. Round Table Discussion on:
“Tables turned: Lutheranism in the Atlantic World then and now”
Introduction and Chair: Hermann Wellenreuther
Participants:
Hartmut Lehmann, Scott Moore (ELCA), N.N.,
A. Gregg Roeber, Christopher Voigt-Goy
and the auditorium

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Excursion to Großhennersdorf
Departure 8.30 a.m.

11.30 a.m.
Final Key Lecture:
Chair: Peter Vogt
Thomas Müller-Bahlke
Grosshennersdorf, Muhlenberg’s First Parish in the Neighbourhood of the Moravians, 1741-1742

4.00 p.m. Return to Halle and Departure