History

Pietism: Recommended Resources

Johann Arndt, True Christianity . (Mahweh, NJ: Paulist Press, 1979).

Lewis Bayly, The Practice of Piety . (New York, NY: A.M.S. Press, 1985).

Robert Bornemann, ed., Five Hymns from the Hymnbook of Magister Johannes Kelpius . (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1976).

Peter Erb, ed., Pietists: Selected Writings . (Mahweh, NJ: Paulist Press, 1983).

G.T. Halbrooks, ed., Pietism . (Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1981).

A.J. Lewis, Zinzendorf, the Ecumenical Pioneer . (Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1962).

Julius F. Sachre, The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania . (1985).

Philip J. Spener, Pia Desideria . (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1964).

F. Ernest Stoeffler, The Rise of Evangelical Pietism . (Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1971).

F. Ernest Stoeffler, German Pietism During the Eighteenth Century . (Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1973).

F. Ernest Stoeffler, Continental Pietism and Early American Christianity . (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1976).

James W. Van Hoeven, Piety and Patriotism . (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1976).

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