{"product_id":"johann-arndt-a-prophet-of-lutheran-pietism-9781945978067","title":"Johann Arndt: A Prophet of Lutheran Pietism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of the most significant devotional author of the seventeenth century in his first full English-language biography. Using previously unknown letters as a few of the resources, \u003cstrong\u003ethis story aims to recreate the theological, sometimes magical, and social worlds of Johann Arndt.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArndt was regarded by his peers and successive generations as either the most significant Reformer since Luther, or an uneducated and dangerous element within the Lutheran church. Later commentators have given Arndt the credit, or blame, for the founding of the Pietist movement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArndt was a central figure in the forging of various Lutheran \"orthodoxies\" of the early seventeenth century and thus the first generation to attempt an interpretation of the Lutheran Confessions of Faith. He is challenged by some on the conservative right for his mystical influences, but was a hero to orthodox Lutheran Johann Gerhard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe did more than found the pietist tradition (which he actually may or may not have); he also became the father of a Lutheran spiritual, maybe mystical tradition. While this movement would only last in more extreme forms of the Lutheran church, the argument from Arndt, Gerhard, and others was that this tradition was not in conflict with the teachings of the Lutheran Confessions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt's a movement that almost was, and lives on in whispers in the church today.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517 Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945978067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d","brand":"Daniel Van Voorhis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43251489046709,"sku":"9781945978067","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_dbdddf5c-0032-4d99-90f4-ee5d062b0096.jpg?v=1699373931","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/johann-arndt-a-prophet-of-lutheran-pietism-9781945978067","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}