Sentences with phrase «lutheran pietists»
The Lutheran pietists were pleased with Luther's efforts to reform church teaching and subsequently wanted to see ministers and laypeople reform their actual lives toward a more biblical vision of piety.
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In this task they look much like Lutheran pietists, or early Wesleyan holiness clubs, with their efforts to offer a «church within a church.»
I grew up Lutheran pietist, they were extremely pro-Jewish.
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The Pietist movement affected both Lutheran and Calvinist churches, but those of us who are Methodists come more directly from it.
Wilken sees the Pietists as recovering concerns for the spiritual life, the affections, and the love of God from the «partial and one - sided» feature of the Lutheran Reformation's «brilliant vision.»
As did his friend in the Lutheran Church, he took a mediating position between two extreme parties — the Pietists and the strict Confessional orthodox.
Johann Hinrich Wichern (1808 - 1881), a Pietist of Lutheran background, was the creator of the Inner Mission.