| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.3

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The Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger, 1772–1781. Edited by Hermann Wellenreuther and Carola Wessel. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. x, 666p. Maps, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. $65.)
Colonial Pennsylvania provided fertile ground in which numerous European Pietist groups were planted and grew. Thanks to the religious toleration provided by William Penn's Frame of Government, these proponents of experiential Christianity, while viewed with some suspicion by the established churches of Europe, were welcome additions to the religious mix of Penn's Woods. The Moravians, spiritual descendants of the pre-Reformation Unity of the Brethren, were one such group. During the eighteenth century, they helped settle the Pennsylvania towns of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Lititz along with Salem in North Carolina.	1
Part of the Pietist heritage that the Moravians brought to North America included their passion to preach the Christian faith to cultures that had not yet been exposed to it. Their attempts at reaching non-European, nonwhites with the message of Christianity were some of Protestantism's earliest endeavors in cross-cultural missions. In coming to the New World, the Moravians desired to share their Christian faith with the Native American tribes populating the North American East Coast. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, served as the headquarters of the Moravians in the colonies, so it is not surprising that the Moravians focused their early missionary efforts on the tribes of the Pennsylvania and Ohio frontiers. David Zeisberger was one of those early missionaries.	. . .

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