Год выпуска: 2009 Автор: Hartmut Lehmann, and James Van Horn Melton Jonathan Strom Издательство: Страниц: 300 ISBN: 0754664015
Описание
This collection explores different approaches to contextualizing and conceptualizing the history of Pietism, particularly Pietistic groups who migrated from central Europe to the British colonies in North America during the long eighteenth century. Emerging in German speaking lands during the seventeenth century, Pietism was closely related to Puritanism, sharing similar evangelical and heterogeneous characteristics. Dissatisfied with the established Lutheran and Reformed Churches, Pietists sought to revivify Christianity through godly living, biblical devotion, millennialism and the establishment of new forms of religious association. As Pietism was more of a concept rather than a centrally organized religion, there were inevitably fundamental differences amongst Pietist groups, and these differences - and conflicts - were carried with those that emigrated to the New WorldThe importance of Pietism in shaping Protestant society and culture in Europe and North America has long been...
