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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...

meant that Pietism was permeated at its core with an ethical flavor. Pietism usually represents an expression of a theology of goodness. An integrally related fourth motif is the theology of experience. Martin Schmidt and others have maintained that the heart of Pietist theology is its focus on regeneration. Pietists strongly emphasized that the God who is good enough to forgive us is powerful enough to change us. Consequently, we find varying degrees of emphasis on repentance, the new birth, and
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