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Re-Emerging Pietism: The Emerging Church As Postmodern Pietism, Tysen Dauer
Re-Emerging Pietism: The Emerging Church As Postmodern Pietism, Tysen Dauer
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Germany in the seventeenth century was ripe for religious reform: the Thirty Years War had created doubts about the correctness of contemporary religious institutions, theologians of most denominations were engaged in abstract, scholastic theological controversy, and inter-denominational conflict was increasingly off-putting. It was into this climate which Pietism emerged as an alternative way of doing religion. Its central tenants were: (1) a more extensive use of Scripture, (2) a reinvigorated spiritual priesthood, (3) an emphasis on orthopraxy, (4) irenic conduct in religious controversies, (5) the establishment of seminaries as centers of personal spiritual cultivation, and (6) sermons emphasizing faith and …