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Pietism
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Pietism (), also known as Pietistic Lutheranism, is a movement within Lutheranism that combines its emphasis on biblical doctrine with an emphasis on individual piety and living a holy Christian life.
Pietism is a movement within the Lutheran church that emphasizes both the importance of biblical teachings and the personal religious experience of living a holy Christian life. It matters because it shifted Lutheran Christianity's focus from doctrine alone to include how individual believers practice their faith in everyday life.
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- Establishment reaction
- Hymnody
- Later history
- Pietistic Lutheran denominations
- Cross-denominational influence
- Radical Pietism
- Influence on the Methodists
- Influence on religion in America
- Influence on science
- Impact on party voting in United States and Great Britain
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Pietism (), also known as Pietistic Lutheranism, is a movement within Lutheranism that combines its emphasis on biblical doctrine with an emphasis on individual piety and living a holy Christian life.
Although the movement is aligned with Lutheranism, it has had a tremendous impact on Protestantism worldwide, particularly in North America and Europe. Pietism originated in modern Germany in the late 17th century with the work of Philipp Spener, a Lutheran theologian whose emphasis on personal transformation through spiritual rebirth and renewal, individual devotion, and piety laid the foundations for the movement. Although Spener did not directly advocate the quietistic, legalistic, and semi-separatist practices of Pietism, they were more or less involved in the positions he assumed or the practices which he encouraged.