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Aug 8, 2020 · In 2015, a group of North American Moravians visited the Berthelsdorf church where the events of August 13 took place. Probably for the centennial of the event, the English Moravian poet, James Montgomery, wrote the best word-picture known of what took place on August 13, 1727, and its results: They walked with God in peace and love.
Jan 1, 2008 · The Moravian Night is a bruising self-portrait, an elegy for the lost and forgotten, and a novel of self-interrogation and uneasy discovery from one of world literature’s great voices. 320 pages, Hardcover. First published January 1, 2008.
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The Moravian Night (German: Die morawische Nacht) is a 2008 novel by the Austrian writer Peter Handke.It tells the story of a retired writer who talks about a recent journey and the state of Europe in front of a small crowd on his houseboat, while anchored outside the village Porodin on the river Morava in Serbia.
His story - and its telling - are haunted by a beautiful stranger, a woman who has a preternatural hold over the writer, and seems to be as much of a demon as she is the longed-for destination of his travels. Powerfully alive, honest, and at times deliciously satirical, The Moravian Night tracks the anxieties, angers, fears, and pleasures of life.
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The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Jesus or birth of Christ is documented in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew.The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Judaea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention.
The story of the Moravian church begins, one may say, at Bethlehem. Not Bethlehem in Pennsylvania but Bayt Lahm, Jesus’ birthplace in Israel. From the night of Jesus’ birth in a stable to a believers’ community on the heights above the Lehigh River an unbroken story of faith continues. It is a story other Christian groups
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Summary of Nativity in the Gospel of Luke. The angel Gabriel appears to Mary in Bethlehem and announces that she will conceive a child, and he will be named Jesus. This baby boy will be the son of God. Mary is shocked by this news because she is a virgin, but sure enough she finds herself pregnant shortly after this, following a visitation from ...
