The Assemblies of God maintains an official heritage center called the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center (FPHC) in Springfield, Missouri. Dr. Darrin Rodgers is the director of the Flower Center. In this video he addresses the important question of the relationship of the Pentecostal renewal in the last century with the movement of Pietism in the post-Reformation era. It strikes me that honest historical research, which is not built on anti-Pentecostalism, cannot help but draw the conclusions that Dr. Rodgers makes in this helpful video.
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Was Pietism an Expression of an Early Pentecostal Movement?: The Assemblies of God maintains an official heritage… https://t.co/jwOct6UfHk
Thanks for the interesting video to watch before bed tonight! 🙂
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For some reason this came up on my newsfeed, even though I think you posted it a few days ago. I’m going to venture a question I thought of then but didn’t want to ask. What do you mean by pietism?
I’ve always thought of it as a bad word/term because it led to my sense of disconnect and fears related to salvation in my 20’s, I grew up a child of the promise, the covenant kid, but I didn’t know if I was saved or had accepted Christ as my Savior–I knew I had received Him, and yet was I owning and acting as Christ my Savior had indeed a grip on me? It was a hard question. Am I interpreting Pietism correctly in this sense?
I ended up finding faith as a fundamentalist and then easing into a salvation on grace alone, as a Christian as a child—not as an adult owning Christ but a child receiving. HOpe that makes sense. I had a nervous breakdown over it.
I’m glad of the fundies, I owned Jesus and came out alive 🙂 And received Holy Spirit and all is Jesus now 🙂
Your question can be answered by a Google search quite fairly I believe. Pietism arose in the 17th and 18th centuries as living experiential faith in the shadows of rigid confessional Protestantism. The same can be broadly said about mysticism in the Catholic Church. Both are corrective renewals.
I see, that’s good. I thought pietism was an inward faith without outward expression as opposed to living faith. I’ll have to research more 🙂
Yes, pietism stresses living faith this it became socially active faith as well.
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The church needs much of what Pentecostalism has brought in. Pietism was a natural reaction to a Protestant deemphasis on the experience of the divine and because Catholicism’s mysticism hasn’t really been for the rank and file typically.
Now mainline Protestants and Catholics are having charismatic renewals and demonstrating Pentecostal theologies. But it’s always been there even if the church has almost always been skeptical. The father of the terms new testament and Trinity, Tertullian’s writings turned heretical but much of what was rejected was just ascetic anabaptist Pentecostalism.