HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Pietism, Puritans, Pelagianism
13 Apr 2020
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While puritanism thus bears a resemblance to pietism, it is probably best to regard them as two distinct movements. Unlike the pietists, the puritans got very involved in politics. This ranged from cromwell"s role in the civil war. The protectorate to the colonization of the americas. While it may seem a bit odd that reformation leaders had such a problem with a return to imitate christ. The core of the reformation for both luther and calvin had been justification by faith alone. If luther had still been alive in the mid 17th century in other words, it would be easy to imagine him attacking pietism. It might lead to the same scruples about looking like a good christian that had caused his spiritual crisis in the 1510s: calvinism and works. Even if lutheranism proved vulnerable to the rebirth of works via pietism, the calvinists could avoid the same fate.
