8/5/11 – Coming up next week here at The Pietist Schoolman… Two more previews of The Pietist Impulse in Christianity take us from Scandinavia to North America, the joys of watching former students flourish, and a new series on Christian colleges.
Part four of our romp through The Pietist Impulse in Christianity raises another deceptively simple question, “Was John Wesley a Pietist?” Even if one accepts a definition of “Pietist” that encompasses people other than early modern German Lutherans, Wesley is a controversial figure. He is included in Carter Lindberg’s popular collection, The Pietist Theologians, and … More The Pietist Impulse: Wesley
Today we come to the end of a series that has looked at 20th century (neo)Anabaptist critiques of Pietism, starting with Harold Bender‘s influential “Anabaptist Vision” speech and Robert Friedmann‘s famously anti-Pietist “thesis.” After a pause to sum up that critique and look at its continuing influence, we examined how revisionist and post-revisionist Anabaptist historians … More What Pietists Can Learn from the Anabaptist Vision
My family just got back from traveling to Michigan, where we attended a family wedding and had the chance to catch up with some good friends of mine from grad school. As a gadabout academic who can spend an hour of his summer holiday researching and writing about the following topic, this kind of diversion … More Why Are There No Holidays in August?
As we’ve already heard from Roger Olson, Pietism is often caricatured as being anti-intellectual, and Pietists as being so concerned to avoid head-centered “dead orthodoxy” that they substitute heart-centered emotional subjectivism. In part three of our series previewing chapters in our new book, The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, we find that tension, but more importantly, … More The Pietist Impulse: Modernity
As I suggested in my weekly recap last Saturday, I’ve had a hard time convincing myself to write a second post about the man who committed the massacre in Norway last month: Anders Behring Breivik. Intending to analyze his targeting of “cultural Marxists” in addition to Muslims, I attempted to read through parts of Breivik’s … More Norway: “A Christian Fundamentalist”
A quick recap of what was happening at this blog and better ones in the last week. Ici Yes, coming to the end of thinking through my proposal for a travel course on World War I already has me longing for la belle langue of France (and southern Belgium, I guess). In the last four … More That Was the Week That Was
7/29/11 – My family is spending a long weekend attending a wedding in Michigan, so there might not be much posted here until the middle of next week: more previews of The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, the conclusion to our series on Anabaptist critiques of Pietism, and perhaps something more on the awful events in … More The Week in Preview
In case you missed any or all of it the first time, here’s an overview of my just-concluded series thinking through a proposal to turn my “January term” course on the history of World War I into a study trip through England, Belgium, France, and Germany. I started with some words of introduction, then continued … More Over There: An Overview
In the first preview of chapters from our new book, The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, I made much of our volume’s affinity for expansive definitions of the “Pietist impulse,” by implication rejecting the “strict constructionist” take that Pietism properly construed was a certain segment of German Lutheranism in the early modern period. So it’s only … More The Pietist Impulse: Germans
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