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Grand Prospects of Halle Pietism the Acrobat, the Project-Maker and the Shepherd Mejrup, Kristian Grand Prospects of Halle Pietism The Acrobat, the Project-maker and the Shepherd Mejrup, Kristian Publication date: 2016 Document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Document license: CC BY-NC-ND Citation for published version (APA): Mejrup, K. (2016). Grand Prospects of Halle Pietism: The Acrobat, the Project-maker and the Shepherd. Det Teologiske Fakultet. Publikationer fra Det Teologiske Fakultet Vol. 64 Download date: 28. sep.. 2021 KRISTIAN MEJRUP ISBN 978-87-93361-19-5 KRISTIAN MEJRUP Grand Prospects of Halle Pietism The Acrobat, the Project-maker and the Shepherd The Acrobat, the Project-maker and the Shepherd the Project-maker The Acrobat, of Halle Pietism Grand Prospects KRISTIAN MEJRUP Grand Prospects of Halle Pietism The Acrobat, the Project-maker and the Shepherd Publikationer fra Det Teologiske Fakultet 64 KRISTIAN MEJRUP ISBN 978-87-93361-19-5 KRISTIAN MEJRUP Grand Prospects of Halle Pietism The Acrobat, the Project-maker and the Shepherd The Acrobat, the Project-maker and the Shepherd the Project-maker The Acrobat, of Halle Pietism Grand Prospects KRISTIAN MEJRUP Grand Prospects of Halle Pietism The Acrobat, the Project-maker and the Shepherd Publikationer fra Det Teologiske Fakultet 64 GRAND PROSPECTS OF HALLE PIETISM THE ACROBAT, THE PROJECT-MAKER AND THE SHEPHERD The PhD defence is scheduled to take place on Friday 17 June at 13:15 The Faculty of Theology Købmagergade 44-46 1150 København K. Grand Prospects of Halle Pietism The Acrobat, the Project-maker and the Shepherd Kristian Mejrup The Faculty of Theology Department of Church History / SOLITUDES University of Copenhagen March 2016 Grand Prospects of Halle Pietism The Acrobat, the Project-maker and the Shepherd Publikationer fra Det Teologiske Fakultet 64 Licensed under CreativeCommons Kristian Mejrup ISBN 978-87-93361-19-5 (print) ISBN 978-87-93361-20-1 (pdf) Printing and binding by Reprocenter Grafisk. University of Copenhagen Published by: The Faculty of Theology University of Copenhagen Købmagergade 44–46 1150 København K Denmark http://teol.ku.dk PREFACE First and foremost, I should like to thank my supervisor Mette Birkedal Bruun for her skilled and encouraging supervision, for being generous with her human and scholarly insights. The present study developed as part of a three-year involvement (March 2013–2016) in the ERC research project: SOLITUDES. Withdrawal and Engagement in the long Seventeenth Centu- ry. I have worked closely together with project-leader Mette Birkedal Bruun, Sven Rune Havsteen, Eelco Nagelsmit and Lars Nørgaard. I am grateful to each one of them. I should like to thank in particular Sven Rune Havsteen for being my co-supervisor over the last three years, for helpful advice and support and for sharing his enormous knowledge and a world of music, aesthetics and theology; Eelco for sharing his world of images and buildings; Lars, il miglior fabbro, for friendship and inspiration, and for never allowing a conversation to get dull. There are also a number of friends and colleagues at the Faculty of The- ology, whom I should like to give thanks: Geert Hallbäck, Gitte Buch- Hansen, Mette Bundvad, Anne Gudme, Søren Holst, Mogens Müller and Nils Holger Petersen. Thanks also to Christina Petterson for sharing expert insights on capitalism, Herrnhut and Weber; to Mattias Bjerring-Nielsen for exciting exchanges, shared interests and pleasant sauntering. In 2014 I spent half a year at Halle at the Studienzentrum in the Francke Foundations, and sincere thanks are due to a number of interlocutors in and outside Halle: Christian Soboth – the man with the contacts and an incredi- ble knowledge and view of literature – Pia Schmidt, Thomas Grünewald, Claus Veltmann, Avi Siluk, Marita Gruner, Andrea Thiele, Anke Mies, Britta Klosterberg, Katharina Loos – and particularly to Holger Trauzettel for sharing his insights, friends and coffee breaks. Thanks to Veronika Al- brecht-Birkner for giving me access to one of her unpublished works. I have also treasured the ongoing conversations with my friend Andreas Pithis. Thanks also to the PhD-students at the Classics department at the University of Ghent, Thomas Velle, Maxim Rigaux, Tim Noens, Dina Wouters, and their supervisor Wim Verbaal, for inspiration during two bril- liant workshops in 2015. David Seton and my supervisor Mette Birkedal Bruun have been inval- uable for ameliorating my English. Finally, I want to thank my family and friends for their loving care and support. I am grateful to my parents, my two boys and my wife Louise: åndsfyrste in everything she does. In the process of preparing the manuscript for publication in Publika- tioner fra Det Teologiske Fakultet, minor corrections have been made to the text. Copenhagen, March / May 2016. INDEX Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 9 Part I: The Acrobat ......................................................................................................... 21 1.1 From head to heart ...................................................................................................................................... 21 1.2 Bible readers in context ............................................................................................................................. 27 1.3 Bible readers in action ................................................................................................................................ 36 1.4 Sermon on rebirth ........................................................................................................................................ 36 1.5 Sermon on duty towards the poor ......................................................................................................... 40 1.6 Concluding remarks ..................................................................................................................................... 47 Part II: The Project-maker .............................................................................................. 49 Grosse Aufsatz ................................................................................................................ 49 2.1 Text edition ...................................................................................................................................................... 49 2.2 GA part one ...................................................................................................................................................... 51 2.3 Addressing insiders and outsiders ......................................................................................................... 52 2.4 Seizing the acceptable time (A) .............................................................................................................. 55 Excursus: Pastoral eschatology ..................................................................................................................... 58 2.5 Seizing the acceptable time (B) .............................................................................................................. 63 2.6 Revealing God’s kingdom .......................................................................................................................... 65 2.7 Directing active passivity .......................................................................................................................... 67 2.8 Divine laundering of capital .................................................................................................................... 71 2.9 The good soil of Halle .................................................................................................................................. 73 GA2 ................................................................................................................................ 76 3.1 GA part two ..................................................................................................................................................... 76 3.2 Discourses of reform .................................................................................................................................... 77 3.3 Seedling nurseries and mud holes of indecency .............................................................................. 84 3.4 Personalizing the organization .............................................................................................................. 86 3.5 From doves to eagles ................................................................................................................................... 88 3.6 Records of providence ................................................................................................................................. 90 3.7 Orphanage – the centre of an industry ............................................................................................... 95 3.8 Food for stomach and soul ........................................................................................................................ 97 3.9 Pastoral formation ..................................................................................................................................... 104 3.10 Mimicking Paul ......................................................................................................................................... 109 Excursus: Trumpet voices and apocalyptic mirrors ...........................................................................
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