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Petrus Bhler or Peter Boehler was a GermanEnglish Moravian bishop and missionary who was influential in the Moravian Church in the Americas and England during the eighteenth century.

Bhler was born in Frankfurt am Main, then part of Holy Roman Empire, on December 31, 1712. Peter was the fourth child of Brewers Johann Konrad Peter Bhler and his wife Antonetta Elisabetha. Bhler attended school in Frankfurt, and went to the University of Jena in 1731. His father wanted him to study medicine, but Bhler was drawn into studying theology by the universitys wellknown faculty members such as Johann Franz Buddeus, Johann Georg Walch and Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf. Walch and Zinzendorf greatly influenced Bhler, and showed him the ways of Pietism a movement within Lutheranism that was instrumental in the upbringing of the Methodist movement later started by John Wesley. The Pietist movement combined the Lutheran emphasis on biblical doctrine with the reformed, but with a particular emphasis on a vigorous Christian life and behavior over intellectual doctrine. Zinzendorf used his influence on the Moravian Church to gather more supporters of the Pietist movement, including Bhler

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