4/20/12 – Home after a long day at Bethel coordinating our Inaugural Colloquium on Pietism Studies. Thanks to all those who took part (including more than a few of our readers who said hi), and we look forward to doing it again in 2-3 years! I’ll have a post or two this weekend sharing some … More Closing the Book on This Year’s Pietism Colloquium
4/19/12 – Just one day left until Bethel’s Inaugural Colloquium on Pietism Studies. I’ll post a recap here on Friday night or Saturday morning, and I might even take a shot at doing some play-by-play from the colloquium itself tomorrow on Twitter. (Follow me there @cgehrz.) For an appetizer, here’s a January 2012 post on … More Tomorrow’s Colloquium on Pietism Studies
4/13/12 – Hot off the press from Wipf & Stock, publisher of our The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, is another book about an “impulse” in Christianity. Edited by Jared S. Burkholder and David C. Cramer, The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersection of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism brings together chapters by John Roth, Steven Nolt, John … More The Activist Impulse
In the newest issue of the Baptist Pietist Clarion, I was especially struck by Glen Scorgie‘s article, “Religion of the Heart: The Enduring Value of Pietism,” in which he asks “whether Pietism should still matter to the Baptist General Conference—to Converge Worldwide.” Even beyond that particular denomination, I think it’s a valuable question for several churches … More Glen Scorgie: Why Pietism Still Matters
4/9/12 – Just eleven more days until Bethel hosts its inaugural Colloquium on Pietism Studies. If you want to hear talks by best-selling author Scot McKnight and historian Jon Sensbach, discuss Pietism past and present with scholars, pastors, and others, and pay $0 for the privilege, be sure to register today!
4/2/12 – The newest issue of The Baptist Pietist Clarion, a newsletter edited by my colleague G.W. Carlson, went out at the end of last week. It features articles by three colleagues on the Bethel Seminary faculty (Chris Armstrong, Jeannette Bakke, Glen Scorgie — one of the contributors to our Pietist Impulse book) on Pietism … More New Issue of the Baptist Pietist Clarion
The title of this post will be news to many of our readers, so let me give some context right away: As part of an interview with Christianity Today about his reaction to the death of Trayvon Martin, Baptist pastor and neo-Reformed theologian John Piper was asked about his book Bloodlines, on racism and racial … More John Piper: “I think I’m a pietistic Calvinist”
I’ve mentioned pieces of this since after Christmas and there’s a count-down widget on this blog’s home page, but let today’s post serve as a more official announcement: On Friday, April 20, 2012, Bethel University will host its inaugural Colloquium on Pietism Studies. This coming about three years after we hosted a Lilly Research Conference … More Registration Open for the Inaugural Bethel Colloquium on Pietism Studies
2/24/12 – From Roger Olson, back from giving a talk at Regent University’s Center for Renewal Studies, a reflection on “Renewalism.” Of particular interest for readers of this blog: What Renewalism means for Pietism. Roger proposes that Pietism is a cousin of Pentecostalism, that at least some Pietists fit the “Renewalist” category (even if they … More Is Pietism “Renewalism”?
Earlier this week I got a nice comment from Jeff Hochstetler, a student at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, who asked a great question: Do you think that for a Pietistic vision to be successful, it must be rooted in institutional expressions, as the Anabaptist vision was/is? Jeff had been reading my summer 2011 series on … More Where Would a Pietist Vision Come From?
The Pietist Schoolman 