Source

History of the Moravian Church: The Renewed Unitas Fratrum 1722-1957

J. Taylor Hamilton and Kenneth G. Hamilton wrote this official history of the renewed Unitas Fratrum, the Moravian Church, covering the period 1722 to 1957, published by the church's own Interprovincial Board of Christian Education. Its strength is direct access to the church's own archives, giving the account a documentary depth an outside historian working without that access could not easily match. Its limit is the one that applies to any denomination's own commissioned institutional history, it is written from within the church for the church, so a claim needing critical outside historical assessment of a contested episode in Moravian history is better checked against an independent academic source alongside this institutional account.

Facts

Assessment

Reliability Tier

Published by the Moravian Church's own Interprovincial Board of Christian Education, the denomination's own official institutional history, treated at the top tier as that primary institutional record.

Notes

The standard institutional history, written from the church's own archives.

Citation

Author

J. Taylor Hamilton and Kenneth G. Hamilton

Publisher

Interprovincial Board of Christian Education, Moravian Church in America

Publication Year

1967

Source Type

Official denominational history

Connections

Associated With

Moravian Church

This source names Moravian Church directly: "of the renewed Unitas Fratrum, the Moravian Church, covering the period 1722 to 1957, published by the church's own Interprovincial Board of Christian Education."

Source History of the Moravian Church: The Renewed Unitas Fratrum 1722-1957J. Taylor Hamilton and Kenneth G. Hamilton

Claims Backed By This Source (34 claims)

This source backs 34 claims across the atlas. As facts: 25 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 6 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Hymns & Liturgical Texts, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
Doctrines, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
Articles, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
Denominations, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
States & Territories, 2 claims: 2 general references.
Spread Events, 1 claims: 1 general references.