The Pietist Impulse in Christianity

by Winn, Christian T. Collins; Gehrz, Christopher; Carlson, G. William; Holst, Eric; Barnes, James H., III

• ISBN13: 9781606083277
• ISBN10: 1606083279
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-01
• Publisher: Pickwick Pubns

Summary

From intellectual inquiry to spiritual practice to social reform, Pietism has exerted an enormous influence on various forms of Christianity and on Western culture more generally. However, this contribution remains largely unacknowledged or misunderstood in Anglo-American contexts because negative stereotypes-some undeserved, others deserved-tend to cast Pietism as a quietistic and sectarian form of religion interested in a narrow set of individualistic and spiritual concerns.

Author Biography

Christian T. Collins Winn is Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is author of Jesus is Victor! The Significance of the Blumhardts for the Theology of Karl Barth (2008) and Series Editor for the Blumhardt Series (Cascade Books). G. William Carlson is Professor of History and Political Science at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of numerous articles on Baptist General Conference history, Swedish Pietism, religion in the Soviet Union, and comparative evangelical political thought. Christopher Gehrz is Associate Professor of History and coordinator of the Christianity and Western Culture program at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Eric Holst is a graduate of Bethel Seminary, with an interest in contextual theology and theories of Christian education.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
Pietism and the Pietist Impulse
Pietism: Myths and Realities	p. 3
Rendered ôOdiousö as Pietists: Anton Wilhelm Bohme's Conception of Pietism and the Possibilities of Prototype Theory	p. 17
Continental German Pietism
The Origin of Pietist Notions of New Birth and the New Man: Alchemy and Alchemists in Gottfried Arnold and Johann Henrich Reitz	p. 29
The Common Priesthood and the Pietist Challenge for Ministry and Laity	p. 42
Gottfried Arnold Speaks English: A Radical Pietist Introduces His ôNon-Partisan Historyö (1697)	p. 59
A Non-Partisan Church- and Heretic-History from the Beginning of the New Testament until the Year of our Lord 1688	p. 63
Kinderbeten: A Tale of Hope and Prayer	p. 75
Joachim Lange: Lutheran Pietist Theologian and Halle Apologist	p. 82
The Pietist Impulse under the Conditions of Modernity
Pietism and Enlightenment Theology's Historical Turn: The Case of Johann Salomo Semler	p. 97
From Pietism to Romanticism: The Early Life and Work of Friedrich Schleiermacher	p. 107
The Living Word and the Word of God: The Pietist Impulse in Kierkegaard and Grundtvig	p. 120
Wesley the Pietist
John Wesley's Relations with the Lutheran Pietist Clergy in Georgia	p. 135
John Wesley and the Constantinian Fall of the Church: Historiographical Indications of Pietist Influence	p. 146
The ôStrangely Warmedö Mind: John Wesley, Piety, and Higher Education	p. 161
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Trans-Atlantic Scandinavian Pietism
The ôWaldenstrom Partyö in Swedish Politics, 1868-1917: Interpreting the Political Activism of the Swedish Awakening	p. 175
Lina Sandell, Berthe Kanutte Aarflot, and Bride Mysticism	p. 187
Swedish Pietism and American Revivalism: Kindred Spirits in the Evangelical Free Tradition	p. 199
öFaith Forms the Intellectual Taskö: The Pietist Option in Christian Higher Education	p. 215
The Pietist Impulse in North American Christianity
Singing to the Lord a New Song: Hymnody and Liturgy in George Rapp's Harmony Society, 1805-1847	p. 233
The Missional Piety of Madame Henriette Feller	p. 245
Pietist and Baptist: Examining the Influence of August Rauschenbusch	p. 257
The Inner Church is the Hope for the World: The Pietist Impulse in the Theology of Martin Luther King Jr.	p. 269
The Pietist Impulse in Missions and Globalizing Christianity
German Pietism as a Major Factor in the Beginnings of Modern Protestant Missions	p. 285
Pietism, Revivalism, and Medical Missions: The Concern for the Corporeality of Salvation in	p. 296
Anonymous Pietists: Pietistic Consciousness in the Indigenous Gold Coast (Ghana) in the Pre-Basel Mission Era	p. 307
Benediction
We of the Broken Body: Toward a Piety of Hope and Reconciliation	p. 319
List of Contributors	p. 331
Index	p. 337
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