the midst of his ecumenical effort, he could write, “Everything sways for the one not firmly anchored in Christ.”1 All this sounds almost pietistic, and one can, in fact, trace lines of connection to later Pietism. It is no coincidence that manuscripts of Comenius’s Consultatio were preserved in Halle, the center of German Pietism. The spiritual connection to Count Zinzendorf, the founder of the renewed Unity of Brethren, should also be considered in this context. Yet it seems to me that still more