'What [Philipp Jakob Spener] and those who followed him created in the hybrid we now still know as Pietism was a new type of Protesant thinking, one that insisted on six major points: a greater emphasis on Biblical study than had been the norm; an increase in lay participation in every aspect of religious activity; the development of ethical revival in the individual himself or herself; an immediate and vast reform of theological education in order to train up a clergy that could talk instead of declaim or orate; and a return to the business of soul-saving and Word-bearing preaching.' -from the Forward by Phylis Tickle
These selections, edited by the mighty pens of Emilie Griffin and Peter Erb, cut to the heart of this short-lived movement in which so much of modern American Christianity is rooted. This work is not only an important look into the past, but its very foundational doctrines are a call to reform in the Church today.
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