Between Sardis and Philadelphia: The Life and World of Pietist Court Preacher Conrad Bröske

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Between Sardis and Philadelphia: The Life and World of Pietist Court Preacher Conrad Bröske is written by Douglas Shantz and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9047441907 (ISBN 10) and 9789047441908 (ISBN 13).

This study examines the life and world of Conrad Bröske (1660-1713), Court Preacher in Offenbach/Mayn. His claim to fame lies in a ten year period between 1694 and 1704 in which this Marburg-trained pastor became a prolific author, polemicist and promoter of chiliastic writings, thanks to a meeting with Thomas Beverley in 1693 and the baptism of a Muslim convert in 1694. Bröske lived a complex existence “between Sardis and Philadelphia,” as a Reformed court preacher and Philadelphian chiliast. His two-sided experience was actually the norm among the Pietists, including so-called radicals. Life between paradigms was the German way of being radical in early modern times due to a lack of religious toleration compared to England and the Netherlands. Bröske’s story belongs to the rise of “Early Evangelicalism” that W.R. Ward has recently discussed.