Introduction to German Pietism Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe

Name: Introduction to German Pietism Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe
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ISBN: 9781421408316

ISBN-10: 1421408317

ISBN-13: 9781421408316

Edition: 2013

Authors: Douglas H. Shantz, Peter C. Erb

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An Introduction to German Pietism provides a scholarly investigation of a movement that changed the history of Protestantism. The Pietists can be credited with inspiring both Evangelicalism and modern individualism.Taking into account new discoveries in the field, Douglas H. Shantz focuses on features of Pietism that made it religiously and culturally significant. He discusses the social and religious roots of Pietism in earlier German Radicalism and situates Pietist beginnings in three cities: Frankfurt, Leipzig, and Halle. Shantz also examines the cultural worlds of the Pietists, including Pietism and gender, Pietists as readers and translators of the Bible, and Pietists as missionaries…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Figures, Maps, and Tables


Foreword, by Peter C. Erb


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Issues in Defining and Describing the Pietist Movement



The Setting and Inspiration for German Pietism



German Radicalism and Orthodox Lutheran Reform



The Thirty Years War, Seventeenth-Century Calvinism, and Reformed Pietism



A Tale of Three Cities



Beginnings of Lutheran Pietism in Frankfurt, 1670 to 1684



Conventicles and Conflicts in Leipzig and the Second Wave, 1684 to 1694



Halle Pietism and Universal Social Reform, 1695 to 1727



The Social and Cultural Worlds of German Pietism



Radical German Pietism in Europe and North America



Pietism and Gender



Pietism and the Bible



Pietism, World Christianity, and Missions to South India and Labrador



Pietism and Modernity



The Contribution of German Pietism to the Modern World


Conclusion. Reflecting on the Cultural and Religious Legacy of German Pietism


Appendixes



Sources in Translation



Translation of Georg Heinrich Neubauer's "183 Questions" (1697)



Discussion Questions



Student Members of the Leipzig Circle of Pietists in the Late 1680s


Notes


Bibliographies and Further Reading


Index of Persons and Places