The active presence of
Pietism and the Pietists in Russia predated the reign of Anna by many decades, driven by the efforts of Halle-connected teachers and pastors to find employment and by the missionary enthusiasm of August Hermann Francke (1663-1727).
Evidence of the unfinished manuscript can be seen in the book, such as Chapter 10.3.A "Women's Suffrage," which contain paragraphs copied verbatim from the original draft of Chapter 5.2.C, "
Pietism and Women's Suffrage." However, because both Chapters 5 and 10 contain original and important material, no clean editorial cuts could be made without sacrificing clarity, and we are left to speculate as to what Chapter 5--or any chapter--might have looked like if Rothbard had survived to complete the manuscript.
Established in the middle of the 1690s in the Prussian city of Halle, the orphanage in question here was actually a multifaceted facility comprising educational, charitable, and scientific institutions and activities that had been set up and overseen by the Lutheran renewal movement called
Pietism. Decisive in shaping the eighteenth-century German "Enlightenment" (Aufklarung),
Pietism sought to combine an inward deepening of the religious experience with outwardly directed charitable activities.
Their topics include religious history since the 1960s, Caffaro of Genoa and the motives of early crusaders, the crusades as an engine of change in missionary conceptions, the creation of Calvinist identity in the Reformation period, piety or
Pietism: comparing early modern Danish and Dutch examples of inter-confessional religiosity, and the impact of
Pietism on culture and society in Germany.
The first chapter describes the emergence of the Brethren from the two streams of Anabaptism and
Pietism, and the emphases from the history that may find a place in a Brethren view of atonement and salvation.
His education there was predominantly theological in nature, with the focus on
pietism and the New Testament.
Allan Aubrey Boesak and Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political
Pietism and Christian Quietism.
Calvinism came to Ghana by way of Protestantism, German
Pietism, and the Basel Mission in 1828.
An Introduction to German
Pietism: Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe.
(5) Although he later severed his connection with the student revival as a movement and came to have critical reservations about
Pietism, his involvement with it left lasting effects, such as the centrality of the Bible in his understanding of theology and in his university lectures in the 1920s.
I worried how
pietism and pride can bend logic for its own purposes.
He then looks more closely at the work of the Jesuits, the rise of
Pietism, the Anglican and Protestant effort centred in Britain, and finally the effect of these efforts on the people and societies being evangelised (a fascinating section).
He also argued that "it is modern censorious Islamist
pietism that is the newer development in the Muslim world, and that the celebration of 'vulgar' pleasures predates it."
