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Issue 10 : Pietism: The Inner Experience of Faith

Originally published in 1986

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Table of Contents

You're Such a Pietist
A Much Maligned Movement Re-Examined: From the Publisher--Pietism
Pietism: Did You Know?
Overwhelmed as with a Stream of Joy: An Autobiography

Translated from Marianne Beyer-Frohlich, hrsg., Pietismus und Rationalismus (Leipzig, 1933), pp. 19–20.
Can These Bones Live?

A spiritual hunger grew in reaction to the coldness and formalism of the Protestant state churches. Drawing from diverse roots, Pietism emerged as a quest to apply Reformation doctrine to personal life.

Ernest Stoeffler
Pietism: The Gallery - Thumbnail Sketches of Important Leaders in the Pietist Movement
Reborn in Order to Renew

The Pietists' emphasis on the new birth and biblical authority had startling implications as to how one treated orphans, the lower classes and one's opponents. Orthodoxy was not enough. A changed life was required.

C. John Weborg
The Roots and Branches of Pietism

Experiencing the Christian Faith
Moving on Many Fronts

Preaching, social concern, missions, ecumenicity were among the major emphases of Pietism.

Gary Sattler
The Flowering of Pietism in the Garden of America

Donald Durnbaugh
The Wissahickon Hermits

From Robert Borneman, Fire Hymns from the Hymnbook of Magister Johannes Kelpius (1976). Used with permission of Fortress Press.
From the Archives: True Christianity
From the Archives: The Pia Desideria (Pious Desires)

The Manifesto of Pietism
From the Archives: On Christian Perfection
From the Archives: Examining the Candidate
From the Archives: Hymns
From the Archives: Pietism and its Formidable Critics
Pietism: Recommended Resources

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