1Relating to Moravia or its people.

1. 1.1 Relating to or denoting a Protestant Church founded in Saxony by emigrants from Moravia holding views derived from the Hussites and accepting the Bible as the only source of faith.
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   • The celebrated ‘heart warming’ experience in the Moravian meeting house in Aldersgate Street, London, on 24 May 1738, was not the day of Wesley's conversion, as has been widely affirmed.
   • He promoted Moravian missions, vigorously supported the Bible Society, and spent Sunday afternoons teaching a class of young children in Sheffield's Red Hill Sunday school.
   • Religion was important to German immigrants and the lack of ministers attracted Moravian missionaries in the early eighteenth century.
   • Back in London, he attended a Moravian meeting in Aldersgate Street, May 24th, 1738, and listened to someone reading from Luther's preface to the book of Romans.
   • Community intellectuals often narrate Miskitu history in parallel with the history of the ancient Hebrews, an outcome of early Moravian translations that familiarized biblical stories.
   • Pearlman has organized individual pieces into ‘Lovefeasts’, a Moravian service of worship that consisted almost exclusively of music.
   • As a group we then traveled to Rosita, where we spoke to a convention of Moravian pastors before heading to the Rio Prinzapolka, where we met up with Ivonne.
   • Such practices were sanctioned by both the Moravian and Catholic Churches.
   • On the same ship were a group of Moravian missionaries from Germany.
   • He visited the Moravian colony at Herrnhut in 1738, and appointed his first lay preacher in the same year.
   • Practice of traditional religion declined with the arrival of Moravian missionaries in the nineteenth century.
   • In May 1738, Rebecca even married one of the German Moravian missionaries.
   • When Moravian missionaries arrived on the Labrador coast they correctly saw that an important part of their task was to translate the Bible into the language of the Inuit people.
   • The 17 Grade II-listed buildings to receive the money include a Moravian missionary church in Gomersal, near Bradford, a small medieval chapel south of Bridlington and a circular church near Sheffield built in the 1960s.
   • The largest of the Protestant congregations are the Moravian Church and Baptist Convention of Nicaragua.

1A native or inhabitant of Moravia.

1. 1.1 A member of the Moravian Church.
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   • The Moravians, and many Quakers, sided with the government against the Regulators or remained neutral.
   • John Wesley no doubt had a great debt of gratitude to pay to the German Moravians in general, and Peter Bohler in specific, for helping the young John Wesley find the assurance he sought in God's forgiving love.
   • At an early stage the Moravians favoured Byzantine chant, but in the 11th century they were subject to the same constraints as the church in Bohemia.
   • In the process the author dispels many common historical misunderstandings about the Moravians at that time, as he also portrays their constant ecumenical commitment and their overseas missions.
   • As late as 1753, groups of German-speaking immigrants known as Moravians were still immigrating to the hills of North Carolina to build Christian communities isolated from a sinful, secular world.
   • The Moravians flourished during the eighteenth century, establishing settlements across Europe and the colonies.
   • In 1991, 32 percent of the population was Anglican, 12 percent was Moravian, 10 percent was Catholic, and 9 percent Methodist.
   • Shortly after getting back from that trip to Saxony, John and Charles Wesley broke with the Moravians for some fairly complex theological reasons.
   • I sense that the Quakers and the Moravians have a pretty good idea of how to collectively pick up the cross and follow Christ amidst the multitude of perspectives and agendas that make up church politics.
   • The success of these churches strengthened the established Reformed churches, which rejected the ecumenical stance of the Moravians.
   • The first Christingle service was held around Christmas time in 1747 by Moravians in Germany.
   • Other Protestant groups include Methodists, Moravians, Baptists, and Seventh-Day Adventists.
   • He was amazed to see these Moravians, showing no fear and persevering in their plans for a service of worship.
   • After 1750 several Danish families who were members of a religious denomination called the Moravian Brethren immigrated to Pennsylvania where they settled among German Moravians in the Bethlehem area.
   • The Moravians, for example, performed 189 marriages at three of their Jamaican stations between 1827 and 1834.