Now for Kindle
October 21, 2011
10/21/11 – Start your Christmas shopping early and order The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, now available for Kindle!
Author: Chris Gehrz
This Week on CWC: The Radio Show
October 20, 2011
10/20/11 – Back after a brief hiatus, this week on CWC: The Radio Show… Amy, Sara, Sam, and I discuss the educational value of crisis, remaking ’80s sitcoms, the suburbs, God’s judgments, and IKEA. Get episodes here, or click on the logo on the right side of the home page.
The Big Ten
October 20, 2011
Here are the ten most popular posts in the past month here at The Pietist Schoolman: Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War The Usable Past: Pietism and Bethel University “The Right Kind of Peace” Does Your Church Value Church History? Radio Kings: The Jayhawks Nevinson’s War The First War Documentary “The Capital of the … More The Big Ten
The Pietist Impulse Hits the Big Time
October 19, 2011
10/19/11 – Every month Christianity Today, the leading evangelical magazine in this country, features a set of mini-book reviews by John Wilson, editor of CT’s awesome sister publication, Books and Culture. Now, I would have been happy just to know that John Wilson knew of our book, let alone read it. But to our utter … More The Pietist Impulse Hits the Big Time
Micah 6:8 in Christian Rhetoric
October 19, 2011
He has shown all you people what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8, TNIV) Let me say right off the bat: I believe Christians ought to seek social justice. We follow a Savior who opened … More Micah 6:8 in Christian Rhetoric
Sophocles, Baptist Pietist
October 18, 2011
10/18/11 – Kyle Roberts, another of my colleagues up at Bethel Seminary (and one of the contributors to our Pietist Impulse book), will be part of a panel discussion of Sophocles’ Antigone (adapted as Burial at Thebes) after it is performed tonight at Minneapolis’ famous Guthrie Theater. The curtain goes up in just over two … More Sophocles, Baptist Pietist
Religion of the Heart
October 18, 2011
10/18/11 – My colleague Chris Armstrong (who blogs at Grateful to the dead) has just posted a wonderfully erudite and accessible four-part series on Christian “religion of the heart,” making the case that Pietists stand with a long line of Christians (Peter, Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, Catherine of Siena, Martin Luther, Puritans, John Wesley) who … More Religion of the Heart
Old School Ivy League: The Yale Report of 1828
October 18, 2011
As historians go, I’m not much of an antiquarian. Since I mostly study the 20th century, I’m little more than a glorified journalist in the eyes of some peers. And I don’t collect first editions or enjoy antiquing. But I’m grateful to my colleague Steve Keillor for passing along excerpts from the 1828 Yale Report. … More Old School Ivy League: The Yale Report of 1828
This Week in History
October 17, 2011
October 17, 1660 – Nine “Regicides” are drawn and quartered At the conclusion of the English Civil War in 1649, Parliament appointed “commissioners” to sit in judgment of the defeated king Charles I. He was sentenced to death, with the warrant signed by fifty-nine men. When the monarchy was restored under Charles’ son in 1660, … More This Week in History
That Was the Week That Was
October 16, 2011
A busy Friday at work bumped my last regular post of the week to Saturday, which is why I’m posting a rare Sunday installment of my weekly links wrap-up, featuring items you might have missed both here at The Pietist Schoolman and elsewhere at sites that might interest my readers. Here Two series continued after … More That Was the Week That Was
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