This presentation highlights Black women's experiences in Moravian communities and how ideas about reproduction shaped their lives. The Black women who lived in these towns and missions in the south found ways to assert their humanity as white Moravians reduced them to their reproductive functions.
This paper analyzes accounts of godly deaths of children, noting their connection to the medieval tradition of children as divine messengers. It argues that these works were apologetic for nonconformists, presenting the godly death of a child as proof of their theological legitimacy.
This paper analyzes the underlying tensions in preaching against the Queen of Heaven that led to retaining the memory of the medieval Virgin. The need to assert an orthodox view of the Trinity against heterodox ideas led to a revival of medieval Marian hagiography.