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Hope for Better Times 1
One of the most important impulses in the modern history of Christianity is Pietism, which began as a renewal movement in German Lutheranism, spread to the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia, and shaped the development of several Lutheran bodies in America. Yet most Lutherans and other Christians today know nothing of Pietism — or only know it as something to be avoided.
In this four-part online presentation, historian Chris Gehrz will suggest how the Pietist past can inspire renewal amid the challenges of the present.
April 16 - Part 1 of 4
In part one of this series, Chris suggests that Christians can better understand who they are — and who they're becoming — by better understanding who they've been. Like many other followers of Jesus Christ, Lutherans can find some of their religious heritage in the history of Pietism, whose founders grew up in the wake of a crisis worse than COVID, yet had an unshakable "hope for better times."