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	Pietism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pietist movement combined the Lutheran emphasis on Biblical doctrine with the Reformed, and especially Puritan, emphasis on individual piety, and a vigorous Christian life.
		The name of Pietist was given to the adherents of the movement by its enemies as a term of ridicule, like that of "Methodists" somewhat later in England.
		Many Pietists soon maintained that the new birth must always be preceded by agonies of repentance, and that only a regenerated theologian could teach theology, while the whole school shunned all common worldly amusements, such as dancing, the theatre, and public games.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pietism (1640 words)

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		These "Pietists," through their successful welfare-educational complex at the University of Halle, inspired King Frederick William I to institute a "State Pietism" that integrated the Pietist teachings of duty, obedience, and discipline into the Prussian national character.
		Believing that the Pietist credo of study, faith, and duty to society would benefit his subjects, Frederick William funded the establishment of several schools to be directed by Francke himself.
		Pietist institutions experienced a remarkable expansion not only in education but also in missionary work under the patronage of Frederick William I. With state assistance, Halle-trained Pietist clergy took up posts in Lutheran churches across Prussia and in foreign countries.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/7023/pietism.html (4291 words)

	PIETIST INFLUENCES IN THE ESCHATOLOGICAL THOUGHT OF JOHN WESLEY AND JORGEN MOLTMANN
		The intent of this study is to provide a historical and theological context for the treatment of the eschatological thought of John Wesley and Jurgen Moltmann by examining their respective uses of sources from the continental Pietism of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
		Johann Albrecht Bengel (1684-1752), the Tübingen (Württemberg) Pietist whose field was Biblical studies, brought to a culmination the tradition of symbolic-prophetic Biblical exegesis that is traced to the federal school of Dutch and German Reformed Pietism.
		Hence, Wesley's reliance upon this Pietist exegete is extensive, though not slavish, with his major interest being to mine the practical, soteriological import of Bengel's treatment of the eschatological dimensions of the Biblical text.
	wesley.nnu.edu /wesleyan_theology/theojrnl/26-30/29-08.htm (4120 words)

	J. S. Bach: Rationalist, Pietist, or Both?
		The Pietists advocated an almost mystical interpretation of faith and Scripture, an interpretation most contrary to rationalism, namely, that faith would come only after personal awareness of the magnitude of Christ's sacrifice and that the true meaning of Scripture would be revealed only after intense and pious contemplation.
		The pastor of the Blasiuskirchen, Johann Adolph Frohne, was a Pietist.
		Those in the minority, those who say that Bach was himself a Pietist, point to his refusal to tow the orthodox line in the selection of texts and librettos, many of which exhibit Pietistic influence.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/rationalistpietist.html (1394 words)

	\bf THE EPHRATA CLOISTER:
		Pietists believed that their churches should move beyond disputes about correct doctrine and do more to bring about significant changes in the lives of believers.
		One Pietist innovation, the establishment of small group Bible study and prayer gatherings, is still recognized today as a very effective way to enhance church life.
		The Pietist movement also led to the creation of new churches, groups that hoped to recapture various important aspects of the experience of the early Christians.
	graceandknowledge.faithweb.com /ephrata.html (6584 words)

	StanleyJGrenz.com :: Concerns of Pietist with a Ph.D.
		The roots of this hallmark of the evangelical understanding of the gospel lie in the Puritan and Pietist movements, that are often cited as forming the immediate seed-bed for the rise of the evangelical awakening in the eighteenth century.
		Pietistic evangelicals have been zealous in warning of the dangers they find inherent in a confessionism in which the focus on orthodox doctrine is purchased at the cost of warm-hearted piety, fervor and devotion to Christ.
		The pietist with a Ph.D. would be the one who not only remains committed to both the gospel of transformation and the advancement of biblical doctrine, but brings the two concerns into creative engagement.
	www.stanleyjgrenz.com /articles/pietist.html (4421 words)

	NICOLAUS LUDWIG ZINZENDORF - LoveToKnow Article on NICOLAUS LUDWIG ZINZENDORF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		His school days were spent at Halle amidst Pietist surroundings, and in 1716 he went to the university of Wittenberg, to study law and fit himself for a diplomatic career.
		Three years later he was sent to travel in Holland, in France, and in various parts of Germany, where he made the personal acquaintance of men distinguished for practical goodness and belonging to a variety of churches.
		He did not mean to found a new church or religious organization distinct from the Lutheranism of the land, but to create a Christian association the members of which by preaching, by tract and book distribution and by practical benevolence might awaken the somewhat torpid religion of the Lutheran Church.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Z/ZI/ZINZENDORF_NICOLAUS_LUDWIG.htm (1279 words)

	The Progressive Era and the Family - Mises Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The evangelical pietists, from the 1830s on, were the northern Protestants of British descent, as well as the Lutherans from Scandinavia and a minority of pietist German synods; the liturgicals were the Roman Catholics and the high-church Lutherans, largely German.
		The pietist Protestant attacks on private and parochial schools fatally threatened the preservation and maintenance of the liturgicals' cultural and religious values; and since large numbers of the Catholics and Lutherans were immigrants, parochial schools also served to maintain group affinities in a new and often hostile worldâ”especially the world of Anglo-Saxon pietism.
		Pietists and "progressives" united to control the material and sexual choices of the rest of the American people, their drinking habits, and their recreational preferences.
	www.mises.org /fullstory.aspx?control=1259 (9130 words)

	Issue #3: Morgan excerpts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Though the term "Pietist" may have had a negative connotation (someone who is self-righteous and smug or wants to escape the world), the fact is that Pietism was for too long defined by its opponents; today, a wider and richer understanding of Pietism is being discovered in many religious circles.
		Many Pietists, of whatever time, have had the sense that the church of their time has been corrupted, and the necessary reform required a return to the pattern of the early Christian community.
		Pietist roots are deep in the American spiritual tradition, including the earliest expressions of Universalism in New England and the mid-Atlantic states.
	www.quaker.org /quest/issue3-2.html (4010 words)

	Philip Jacob Spener by David Smithers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Pietist yearned and prayed to see the Church restored to Her original purity and power.
		"Pietists in the Netherlands were the first to use the term `huis Kerk' or house church for their renewal meetings." In these meetings Spener found expression for the burdens of his heart.
		Pietist felt that laymen had not been given sufficient opportunities in the Church.
	www.watchword.org /smithers/ww28a.html (671 words)

	Public Education versus Liberty: The Pedigree of an Idea
		Consequently, Pietist founded the modern school, with all its familiar characteristics, among which the stress on literacy.
		The emphasis in Pietist theology on inner piety instead of merely outward conformity blended almost naturally with the political plans of the King.
		But as the Prussian King had manipulated the Pietist schools to produce more obedient subjects, so the political reformers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries turned to the public education system to produce the kind of citizens they desired.
	www.tysknews.com /Depts/Educate/education_versus_liberty.htm (1926 words)

	Rothbard Introduction to Spooner
		From there the pietists concluded that it was everyone's moral duty to his own salvation to see to it that his fellow men as well as himself are kept out of temptation's path.
		These were: the attempt by pietist groups (almost always Republican) to enforce prohibition; the attempt by the same groups to enforce Sunday blue laws; and the attempt by the selfsame pietists to enforce compulsory attendance in the public schools, in order to use these schools to "Christianize" the Catholics.
		While the liturgicals proved to be far more libertarian that the pietists during the second half of the nineteenth century, a pietistic spirit is always important in libertarianism to emphasize a tireless determination to eradicate crime and injustice.
	www.mises.org /rothbardintros/spooner.asp (1753 words)

	The Progressive Era and the Family by Murray N. Rothbard
		The pietist Protestant attacks on private and parochial schools fatally threatened the preservation and maintenance of the liturgicals' cultural and religious values; and since large numbers of the Catholics and Lutherans were immigrants, parochial schools also served to maintain group affinities in a new and often hostile world — especially the world of Anglo-Saxon pietism.
		When they [the pietists] spoke of "moral education," they had in mind principles of morality shared in common by the adherents of gospel religion, for in the public school all children, even those whose parents were enslaved by "Lutheran formalism or Romish superstition," would be exposed to the Bible.
		One of the reasons impelling pietists and Republicans toward prohibition was the fact that, culturally, the lives of urban male Catholics — and the cities of the Northeast were becoming increasingly Catholic — revolved around the neighborhood saloon.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rothbard/rothbard28.html (9322 words)

	Studies in Brethren Pietism
		Many early Pietists were content to remain in established churches, but in the late 1600's awakened souls risked the danger of separating from all state churches, and these Separatists were branded as radicals and fanatics, if not outright heretics.
		As the Pietist leaders continuously fled from town to town, often narrowly escaping the authorities, their message effectively spread to a greater mass of people.
		In 1702, Hochmann was incarcerated in the prison of Detmold castle for his Pietistic activities, with a condition of his release being to articulate his religious beliefs in a formal written statement to his jailor.
	www.cob-net.org /pietism.htm (2639 words)

	Doing Philosophy As a Pietist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Pietist tradition is not one known for its friendliness to the discipline of philosophy.
		The Pietist call for practice of the Christian faith is, at its best, a call for such practice in addition to a solid knowledge of the faith.
		Francke experienced Pietist conversion in Leipzig in 1687 and touched off an "awakening" of spiritual fervor in the Pietist mode that spread in the university and was eventually suppressed by the dismissal of Pietist masters.
	www.efn.org /~ssb/papers/pietist.htm (3716 words)

	Sauer Grapes
		Mack said that the Mennonites were sound on their doctrine, but weren't so good when it came to living it out (which, for all we know, could have been a fair assessment of the Mennonites, even that early on--though they had been in existence for nearly 200 years by that time).
		We were founded by Radical Pietists, "Radical" being the label applied to those Pietists who were so fed up with the church that they split off from it completely.
		He said when Radical Pietist tendencies slide too far into mystical subjectivism, they are disciplined by Anabaptist demands for obedience to a more objective scriptural norm as discerned by the community of faith.
	sauergrapes.blogspot.com (3734 words)

	Bunnie Diehl: If you don't like it, just go away: The Nine Spiritual Laws of White-Wine Pietists
		It's enough to just love Jesus." The point regularly made by white-wine pietists is that the quest for theological depth, clarity, and maturity lead one away from Jesus Christ and the Scriptures and frustrate the work of the Holy Spirit.
		These pietists in confessional churches incessantly clamor to "update" worship so that the "spirit can lead." Thus Lutherans, for example, now experience the strange phenomenon of having an Amy Grant song in the middie of a "modified" Divine Service.
		But I thought a pietist was someone who held strict rules and looked down on others who didn't hold to those rules.
	bunniediehl.worldmagblog.com /bunniediehl/archives/011415.html (552 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pietism
		The Pietists were accused of false doctrines, contempt for public worship and the science of theology, and separatistic tendencies.
		Among the theologians who, starting as Pietists, advanced to an independent position, quite at variance with organized Protestantism, the most conspicuous were Gottfried Arnold (died 1714), representative of a fanatical mysticism, and his disciple, Johann Konrad Dippel, who attacked all forms of orthodox Christianity.
		There are also connecting links between the subjectivism of the Pietists and the theological liberalism of Albrecht Ritschl and his school, whose insistence on interior religious experience in the form of feeling is a basic idea of Pietism, although the Ritschlian school is opposed by devout Pietists as well as by Orthodox Lutherans.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12080c.htm (1579 words)

	Pietisten: A Pietist Folk School: A Point of Departure
		When the pietistic movement took root in Sweden, it eventuated in other educational efforts, among them, the children’s home and school at Vall in the province of Värmland, created by Maria "Mor i Vall" Nilsdotter and administered largely by her son who was the pietist lay preacher, Carl Johann Nyvall.
		What follows, then, is the outline of a tentative proposal for the creation of what we are terming a "pietist folk school." As with its predecessors, this school would attempt to be an expression of pietism for its time and to speak to an unaddressed need in the realm of American higher education.
		The second group our pietist folk school would serve is older adults, middle-aged and senior, who are in life or career transitions and would like to renew their thinking and refresh their perspectives.
	www.pietisten.org /fall99/folkschool.html (926 words)

	Brethren Glossary: M
		The following terms reflect the culture of the Church of the Brethren, a denomination grounded on the principles of Anabaptism and founded through the Pietist efforts of Alexander Mack, in the summer of 1708 near the small German village of Schwarzenau.
		When Pietist activity in Schriesheim became intolerable for local authorities, Hochmann was sentenced to hard labor, the Klings were excommunicated (Mack's in-laws), Alexander and Anna Mack sought refuge at Schwarzenau in the district of Wittgenstein, and many other Palatinates with Pietist leanings were expelled.
		Mack frequently sought advice from his radical Pietist friend and mentor Ernest Hochmann who was schooled not only in the power of oratory, but also as frequent recipient of the wrath of the authorities.
	www.cob-net.org /glossary_brethren-m.htm (916 words)

	Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Pietismusforschung der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Their political and social interests often begin with views on family life and childrearing, include educational philosophies and their corresponding institutional realization, and extend to the formation of distinct social groups involved in the highest levels of power politics.
		One thinks, among other things, of Pietist's efforts to influence church and school appointments and hiring practice, or, for example, of the many expressions of Pietist social ministry, such as care for the poor, the sick or for orphans.
		The many treatises that Pietists admittedly wrote in such a vein largely pertain to literary fiction such as novels, romances, or those coupled with music, like operas and oratorios, or even concertante church music.
	mlucom6.urz.uni-halle.de /pietismus/ikp1/ikp1_en.htm (1089 words)

	Pietism
		The fact that pietism remained faithful to Scripture and that its subjectivity was controlled by Christian beliefs suggests that, whatever its relationship to the Enlightenment, it was not the primary source of the latter's skepticism or rationalism.
		And Wesley's Methodism, with its emphasis on Scripture, its commitment to evangelism and edification, its practical social benevolence, and its evangelical ecumenicity, was pietistic to the core.
		At its worst the pietistic tendency can lead to inordinate subjectivism and emotionalism; it can discourage careful scholarship; it can fragment the church through enthusiastic separatism; it can establish new codes of almost legalistic morality; and it can underrate the value of Christian traditions.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/pietism.htm (2106 words)

	Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society: PIETIST CRITIQUE OF INERRANCY? J. A. BENGEL'S GNOMON AS A TEST CASE, THE
		The Pietists are one particular group who continue to be put forward as evidence for the novelty of the doctrine of inerrancy.
		The Pietists are said to have held to a more "dynamic" and less "mechanical" view of Scripture-even deliberately rejecting an inerrant view of Scripture.
		Fredrick Holmgren's article on "The Pietistic Tradition and Biblical Criticism" largely discusses the Pietist doctrine of inerrancy with reference to Spener.15 The context of his discussion of Bengel, however, indicates that he is to be seen in the same light as Holmgren's understanding of Spener.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3817/is_200403/ai_n9400810 (756 words)

	Kirkon nelivuotiskertomus 1996-1999 - sisällysluettelo
		There is Pietist activity in nearly two parishes out of every three.
		In the Pietist view, people themselves are not capable of faith and joy: they can only long for and await God's grace.
		Unlike the Pietists, the Evangelicals emphasize a sense of rejoicing in the firmness of one's faith.
	www.evl.fi /kkh/ktk/publication96-99/4v-englanti-15.htm (771 words)

	H-Net Review: Elisa von Joeden-Forgey on Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control: Organizational Contradictions in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He develops the argument that Pietist beliefs both created and sustained the Mission as an institution by managing to account for both missionary zeal, on the one hand, and, on the other, the centralized control mechanisms that sought to shut down individual initiative.
		Missionaries, whose well-being was obviously undermined by ever-present tattling and suspicion, shared the Pietist emphasis on "faith in central authority, obedience, and alertness to the weaknesses of self and others," which acted as a kind of "social anesthesia" against the "social pain" that the Mission's troubles caused for them" (pp.
		But given that the Pietist view of contrition--and Basel's rigorous and painful institutionalization of it--was itself rather particular in its strenuousness, Schiedt may also have been voicing the frustrations of men in the field when given culturally loaded and impossible directives from the home office.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=115941101758310 (4108 words)

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