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
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Monday, January 21, 2013 – to Munich In a mere six hours, a TGV high-speed train traveling upwards of 200 miles per hour will … More A War of Words
Kind of a slow blogging week, what with the long weekend and a heat-induced torpor slowing down us hard-summering intellectuals. But here’s what you might have missed at The Pietist Schoolman and elsewhere. Here I revealed the Baroque painting that lends a sliver of visual flair to the top of this otherwise text-heavy blog—along the … More That Was the Week That Was
I don’t know quite what to feel on the 4th of July. On the one hand, I’m a sucker for Americana. We’re spending the holiday with my wife’s family, in a small farming town in Iowa. We’ll dress our kids in red, white, and blue, grab a seat on the curb of Main Street to … More Pledging Allegiance
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