The Pietist Impulse of Christianity (Princeton Theological by Christian T. Collins Winn,Christopher Gehrz,G. William

From highbrow inquiry to non secular perform to social reform, Pietism has exerted a major effect on quite a few kinds of Christianity and on Western tradition extra ordinarily. in spite of the fact that, this contribution continues to be mostly unacknowledged or misunderstood in Anglo-American contexts simply because unfavourable stereotypes--some undeserved, others deserved--tend to solid Pietism as a quietistic and sectarian type of faith attracted to a slim set of individualistic and non secular concerns.

In this quantity, students from various disciplines provide a corrective to this false impression, highlighting the profound theological, cultural, and religious contribution of Pietism and what they time period the "pietist impulse." The essays during this quantity display that Pietism was once a stream of serious intensity and originality that was once no longer purely taken with the "pious soul and its God." really, Pietists have been from the start fascinated by problems with social and ecclesial reform, the character of heritage and historic inquiry, the form and function of theology and theological schooling, the missional job of the church, and social justice and political engagement. furthermore, the essays accumulated the following fruitfully increase the query of the continuing relevance of Pietism and the "pietist impulse" for modern difficulties and questions throughout disciplines and within the church at large.

"Understanding Pietism is necessary for greedy the trendy manifestations of Protestantism in Europe and North the US. This extraordinary quantity illustrates either the variety and diversity of yankee study on Pietism and its promise for students on either side of the Atlantic."
--Hartmut Lehmann
Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen

"The editors of The Pietist Impulse have assembled a deep and far-ranging assortment on a big subject matter within the historical past and perform of Christianity. major students from numerous fields examine a unifying subject in a clean variety of methodological, chronological, and geographic variations. those works display the energy, the centrality, and the various chances of Pietist reviews today."
--Katherine Carté Engel
Texas A&M University

Christian T. Collins Winn is affiliate Professor of old and Systematic Theology at Bethel collage in St. Paul, Minnesota. he's writer of "Jesus is Victor!" the importance of the Blumhardts for the Theology of Karl Barth (2008) and sequence Editor for the Blumhardt sequence (Cascade Books).

Christopher Gehrz is affiliate Professor of background and coordinator of the Christianity and Western tradition application at Bethel collage in St. Paul, Minnesota.

G. William Carlson is Professor of background and Political technological know-how at Bethel collage in St. Paul, Minnesota. he's the writer of diverse articles on Baptist normal convention background, Swedish Pietism, faith within the Soviet Union, and comparative evangelical political concept.

Eric Holst is a graduate of Bethel Seminary, with an curiosity in contextual theology and theories of Christian education.