What is Templers (religious believers)?
[[File:German colony in Haifa 1875.JPG|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|German Templer Colony in Haifa, woodcut, 1875}}]] '''Templers''' are members of the Temple Society ({{lang-de|Tempelgesellschaft}}). It is a [[Germany|German]] [[Protestantism|Protestant]] [[sect]]. Their roots are in the [[Lutheranism|Pietist movement of the Lutheran Church]]. The Templers were [[wikt:expel|expel]]led from the church in 1858. This was because of their [[Millenarianism|millennial]] beliefs. Their aim was to realize the [[Apocalypse|apocalyptic]] visions of the [[prophet]]s of [[Israel]] in the [[Holy Land]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cYAJwOR_WucC&dq=beliefs+temple+society+templers&pg=PA121 Israel: The Land and the People]</ref> [[Christoph Hoffmann]] [[wikt:found|found]]ed the Temple society in 1861.<ref name=Glenkxxv.xxvi>Helmut Glenk; Horst Blaich; Manfred Haering, ''From Desert Sands to Golden Oranges: The History of the German Templer Settlement of Sarona in Palestine 1871-1947'' (Victoria, BC: Trafford, 2005), pp. xxv–xxvi</ref> He had 60 [[wikt:follower|follower]]s when they left the [[Wuerttemberg]] state (Lutheran) church. Hoffmann believed his [[wikt:calling|calling]] was to build [[Christian]] [[Community|communities]] in the Holy land.<ref name=Glenkxxv.xxvi/> They founded Templer communities at [[Haifa]] (1869), [[Sarona (colony)|Sarona]] (1871) and Rephaim near [[Jerusalem]] (1873).<ref name=Glenkxxv.xxvi/> == References == {{reflist}} {{commons}} [[Category:Protestant denominations]] [[Category:1861 establishments in Europe]] [[Category:1860s establishments in Germany]] {{religion-stub}}