ABSTRACT
The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, the Moravians, became the most significant pietistic sect in America. Having sheltered vulnerable sectarians on his Saxon estate, the pietistic noble Count Zizendorf (1700-1760) assumed leadership of the group and in 1741 followed earlier Moravian migrants of the 1730s to Pennsylvania. He unsuccessfully tried to bring the various German religious groups together—he and Conrad Beissel evidently saw themselves as rivals—and to establish missionary work amongst Indians. Though initially his evangelistic outlook and stress on God's love of man drew him to Whitefield, the Moravians became the subject of sharp 'New Light' attack, as in the case of the Presbyterian revivalist Gilbert Tennent (1703-1764).
