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SKU (ISBN): 9780830851942
ISBN10: 0830851941
Christopher Gehrz | Mark Pattie
Binding: Cloth Text
Published: September 2017
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
$23.00
Introduction: “Come Back To Jesus”
Part I: Christianity In The Early Twenty-First Century
1. What’s Wrong?
2. Hoping For Better Times
Part II: Proposals For Renewal
3. A More Extensive Listening To The Word Of God
4. The Common Priesthood For The Common Good
5. Christianity As Life
6. The Irenic Spirit: Unity, Mission, And Witness
7. Whole-Person, Whole-Life Formation
8. Proclaiming The Good News
Benediction: “Like A Tree Planted By Water”
Appendix: Learn More About Pietism
Study Guide
Notes
Name Index
Scripture Index
Additional Info
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The Pietist Option introduces Pietism to those who don’t know it-and reintroduces it to those who perceive it as an outdated and inward-focused spirituality, a nitpicking divisiveness, or an anti-intellectual withdrawal.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.
SKU (ISBN): 9780830851942
ISBN10: 0830851941
Christopher Gehrz | Mark Pattie
Binding: Cloth Text
Published: September 2017
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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