Shawn Barnett

Shawn Barnett is a research assistant for Concordia Historical Institute in St. Louis, Mo., the official archives of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

1 piece in Pietisten

Pietism and confessionalism Spring/Summer 2016
In the first issue of The Baptist Pietist Clarion, the explicit purpose of which is to defend the pietist heritage of the Baptist General Conference (aka Converge Worldwide), the late G. William Carlson provided a theological manifesto for the project entitled “What is Pietism?: ‘In Essentials Unity, in Non-essentials Diversity, In Everything Charity.’” This motto, printed on the masthead of every issue of the Clarion, can be summed up in a word: irenicism (from the Greek word for peace).