Pietisten

Summer 1986

Volume I, Number 1

In This Issue

Awakening Pietisten: An Introductory Editorial by David Hawkinson

We have gathered, in this spirit, to reopen this forum because searching for this “stream” has been a central concern in our lives. This interest, however, is not a dispassionate curiosity in the history of religious movements. Nor are we motivated by a naive romanticism or sentimentality meant only to conjure up bygone days and warm memories.

Looking to Luther — Galatians 2:11-21 by Phil Johnson

I think that Luther was surprised by God's work. I think that surprise is a divine intention. I think that Luther thought that surprise was God's divine intention and that it was an example of God's matchless Grace in the commonplace.

Galatians 2:11-21 and Waldenström’s Commentary by Paul Peter Waldenström and translated by Tommy Carlson

Commentary on the Lectionary Text: Galatians 2:11-21 by David Hawkinson

The text is written to respond to the most significant crisis facing the new church communities. That crisis had to do with the difficult problem of entrance into the fellowship of Christ.

Pietist Theology - Revisited and Renewed by Peter Sandstrom

If focusing on the task of continuing to do theology from a pietist perspective, I want to reflect on a few comments written by David Nyvall in his essay, "Covenant Ideals". It is my intention at this time not to attempt an analysis of what pietist theology is or was, but rather to propose a case for why we might primed and how we could go about it.

From a Stonewalled Birch-Spired Land by Dennis Moon