Overview

Third-generation Moravian pastor David Allen Schattschneider (1939-2016) was Dean of Moravian Theological Seminary from 1988 to 2001. A graduate of Moravian College and Yale Divinity School, he received the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago for his dissertation on the missionary theology of Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and Bishop Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg. He served as Professor of Historical Theology and World Christianity at Moravian Seminary beginning in 1968, founded the Center for Moravian Studies in 1992, and was president of both the Moravian Historical Society and the Moravian Music Foundation. Richard J. Mammana, Jr. (1979) is a graduate of Columbia College and Yale Divinity School. A descendant of Schwenkfelder exiles who were assisted in their flight to Pennsylvania by the Moravians, he serves as the Episcopal Church's Associate for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations and staff for the Moravian-Episcopal Coordinating Committee (moravian-episcopal.org, 2014-present). A member of National Episcopal Historians and Archivists and the Pennsylvania German Society, he is the founding director of anglicanhistory.org.