Concordia Theological Monthly
Publication Date
4-1-1968
Document Type
Article
Keywords
pietism, feller, smith, pious, pietist, piety, francke, merrill, pietismus, spener
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
Only a few years after Philipp Jacob Spener in 1675 published his famous Pia Desidena, his followers were labeled "Pietists." The new name spread to Leipzig, where under the leadership of August Hermann Francke a group of students met in the Collegium Philobiblicum. They also were nicknamed "Pietists." Then one of the students suddenly died. His funeral was the occasion for the Leipzig professor of poetry, Joachim Feller, to say a word about the new movement with which he was in sympathy. And so he became the first man to identify himself with Pietism in a positive sense. He wrote a poem on the death of the pietistic student in 1689. Still in the same year he followed this up with a short poem on the Pietists in general. These two poems taken together form the first document of our consideration.
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Gerdes, Egon W.
(1968)
"Pietism: Classical and Modern-A Comparison of Two Representative Descriptions,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 39, Article 24.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol39/iss1/24
