was carried to an extreme. The relationship of the Christian to God and Christ was described in terms of human intimacy, frequently in a way we find distasteful and offensive today. At the same time that the Herrnhut movement undoubtedly sought to do justice to one of Lutheranism’s basic ideas, it was, through its subjective emphasis, strongly conditioned by the era in which it appeared. Its piety was of an effeminate and sentimental nature. The Herrnhut movement was opposed not only by the orthodox