Shyovitz's arguments in chapter 1 about the
pietists' interest in observable phenomena as "remembrances" of the spiritual plane of existence alter our understanding of
pietist attitudes toward nature and the importance of methodical efforts at cataloguing and explicating its workings.
Not only did many of these "foreigners" grow up outside Russia and outside Russian political and religious culture, but they also had intellectual and personal ties to the
Pietist movement.
Among the fruits of the
Pietist movement were the creation of a large number of new hymns and the widespread and inspired hymn singing which went hand in hand with it.
Another set of adjectives expressed
Pietist hopes for renewal of humanity and a better future for the church: the new man, born-again Christianity, the coming Philadelphian church.
Jeff Bach of Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and
Pietist Studies will deliver a plenary talk on Thursday afternoon introducing the unique history of southeastern Pennsylvania and its musical traditions.
From a March 2009 conference in Saint Paul, Minnesota, 25 papers look at Pietism and the
Pietist impulse, continental German Pietism, the
Pietist impulse under the conditions of modernity, Wesley the
Pietist, trans-Atlantic Scandinavian Pietism during the 19th and 20th centuries, the
Pietist impulse in North American Christianity, and the
Pietist impulse in missions and globalizing Christianity.
Referring to the "beautiful soul" (schone Seele), whose
Pietist confessions form the sixth book of Goethe's Apprenticeship, and to her uncle, Schlegel provides a succinct presentation of this gendered dichotomy:
While I would read such incidents as another link in a continuous story of connection and reform, Iqbal Singh Sevea certainly shows how a case for continuity (and conflict) can be made when considering the print-driven efforts of the Ahmadiyya movement of Lahore, whose descendants now find themselves the unwanted recipients of
pietist violence across the Indian Ocean today.
He was no evangelical or
pietist, but Thompson cautions against reading deistic tendencies into Washington's silences on religion.
His project is to ground Goethe's early writings in an understanding of the Bible that mobilizes a
Pietist hermeneutics rooted in a specific exegetical approach, the sensus mysticus.
Macdonald), German Radical Pietism--Revitalization: Explorations in World Christian Movements;
Pietist and Wesleyan Studies, No.
This poem relates the annual confessions of a "bigote" [translated as "zealot" in Les Cenelles and "zealous
pietist" in Creole Echoes], whom the pastor exhorts to abandon her sinful ways.
Progressive Era reformers drew heavily on the
pietist Protestant tradition, and their successors have merely continued the secularization of self-righteousness.
