In according to webter.com, “a 17th century religious movement originating in Germany in reaction to formalism and intellectualism and stressing Bible study and personal religious experience.” (www.merriam-webster.com) Pietism is known as historical movement that highlighted the reaction of belief and confidential conversion as vital characteristics of renovation to Christ. Inopportunely, Pietism today is frequently associated with a sanctimonious spiritual assertiveness, faithful legalism, or abandonment from engrossment in civilization. The purpose of pietism was to recuperate Christian heart felt devoutness, affectionate generosity and ethical transparency in everyday organic over sacramental and authoritarian strictness. The authors of this article argue that orthodox, historical Pietism is an instrumental stream in evangelical Christianity and that it must be recuperated as a resource for evangelical replenishment. They confront misapprehensions of Pietism by unfolding the roots, improvement, and foremost matters of the historical movement and the spiritual theological attitude decreasing from it. It also surveys Pietism's inspiration on contemporaneous Christian theologians and spiritual
In according to webter.com, “a 17th century religious movement originating in Germany in reaction to formalism and intellectualism and stressing Bible study and personal religious experience.” (www.merriam-webster.com) Pietism is known as historical movement that highlighted the reaction of belief and confidential conversion as vital characteristics of renovation to Christ. Inopportunely, Pietism today is frequently associated with a sanctimonious spiritual assertiveness, faithful legalism, or abandonment from engrossment in civilization. The purpose of pietism was to recuperate Christian heart felt devoutness, affectionate generosity and ethical transparency in everyday organic over sacramental and authoritarian strictness. The authors of this article argue that orthodox, historical Pietism is an instrumental stream in evangelical Christianity and that it must be recuperated as a resource for evangelical replenishment. They confront misapprehensions of Pietism by unfolding the roots, improvement, and foremost matters of the historical movement and the spiritual theological attitude decreasing from it. It also surveys Pietism's inspiration on contemporaneous Christian theologians and spiritual