Pietist Option, Christopher Gerhz
Pietist Option, Christopher Gerhz
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Pietist Option
Hope for the Renewal of Christianity

Author: Christopher Gerhz, Mark Pattie III

Narrator: TBD

Unabridged: 4 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/15/2017

Synopsis

Historian Mark Noll has written that historic Pietism "breathed a badly needed vitality" into post-Reformation Europe. Now the time has come for Pietism to revitalize Christianity in post-Christendom America.In The Pietist Option, Christopher Gehrz, a historian of Pietism, and Mark Pattie, a pastor in the Pietist tradition, show how Pietism holds great promise for the church-and the world-today. Modeled after Philipp Spener's 1675 classic, Pia Desideria, this timely book makes a case for the vitality of Pietism in our day.Taking a hard look at American evangelicalism and why it needs renewal, Gehrz and Pattie explore the resources that Pietism can provide the church of the twenty-first century. This concise and winsome volume serves as a practical guide to the Pietist ethos for life and ministry, pointing us toward the renewal so many long for.The Pietist Option introduces Pietism to those who don't know it-and reintroduces it to those who perceive it as an outdated and inward-focused spirituality, a nitpicking divisiveness, or an anti-intellectual withdrawal. With its emphasis on our walk with Jesus and its vibrant hope for a better future, Pietism connects decisively with the ideas and issues of our day. Here is a revitalizing option for all who desire to be faithful and fruitful in God's mission.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on March 27, 2019

Deeply thankful that this book exists. It's a good, readable summary of Pietism for those mostly unfamiliar, and a faithful, practical guide for those already living in the Pietist tradition. In fact, a reader could crack open this book knowing nothing about Pietism and discover they've been a Pieti......more

Goodreads review by Robert on November 04, 2017

Years ago I read Philip Spener's Pia Desideria, one of the foundational texts of the Pietist movement of the seventeenth century. Today we often equate pietism with a person who is so heavenly minded that they are of no earthly good. Such is not the Pietist vision of people like Spener, who responde......more

Goodreads review by Tom on May 15, 2021

An excellent and accessible invitation and introduction into Pietism and the Covenant Church’s ethos. Mark and Chris offer a contemporary reading of Philipp Jakob Spener’s “Pia Desideria” which sketched out the timeless call back to Jesus and his vision for the church. “The church is alive, against......more

Goodreads review by Scott on April 03, 2018

I was already inclined to enjoy this book; I'm a part of the Evangelical Covenant Church, which was birthed out of the Pietist Movement. Taking the classic Pietist text Pia Desideria as its launching-off point, the book takes an unflinching look at Christianity in the early 21st century, before putt......more

Goodreads review by George P. on October 18, 2017

American Christianity is in a parlous state. It constitutes a shrinking share of the population. And in terms of worship service attendance, most of its churches are shrinking too. Regarding share of the population, most Americans continue to identify as Christians, but that number is declining. Acco......more

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