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Dale Brown began his study of pietism nearly 40 years ago, “during the height of the ascendancy of the bitterly anti-pietistic neo-orthodox scholasticism.” At that time pietism was a bogey implying moralism, subjectivism, emotionalism, and a host of other such “-isms.” Brown set about to assess pietism in its historical situation, and to clearly define it as a term describing a historical...
from them, “for man cannot love God in truth without loving the world.”22 In subsequent chapters we will define more thoroughly the central theological motifs of the early movement. For now it will suffice to list those motifs in order to gain an initial overview and understanding. First is a concern for the reformation of the church. Believing the first Reformation had bogged down in dogmatics, polemics, and institutional rigidity, the Pietists offered concrete proposals
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