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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797411903321

Autore

Olson Roger E.

Titolo

Reclaiming pietism : retrieving an evangelical tradition / / Roger E. Olson and Christian T. Collins Winn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Grand Rapids, Michigan : , : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, , 2015

ISBN

1-4674-4319-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 190 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

230/.04624

Soggetti

Pietism - History

Evangelicalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Defining and redefining pietism : how a good word got a bad reputation -- 2. Pietist backgrounds : precursors and cousins of pietism -- 3. Reforming the reformation : classical pietism's beginnings, part I -- 4. Reforming the reformation : classical pietism's beginnings, part II -- 5. A portrait of pietism : its authentic hallmarks -- 6. Where pietism flourished on new soil : Great Britain and North America -- 7. Pietism for a new era : the re-invention of pietism in the nineteenth century -- 8. Contemporary appropriations of the pietist impulse : four exemplars.

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses classical, historical Pietism as an influential stream in evangelical Christianity, and challenges misconceptions of Pietism.