HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Johann Arndt, Pietism, Calvinism
13 Apr 2020
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The status of the reformation as of the late 17th century was somewhat mixed. Be a calvinist in switzerland or the netherlands or the rhineland was good. To be a calvinist in france was not in england. It was hard to tell: a changing reformation. The reformation was meant to stay the same. New visions of reform kept developing in the centuries to come: the pietists. In the early 17th century, a new pietism emerged out of lutheranism. Figures like johann arndt re-emphasized the need for even lutheran christians to change. While he started off as a pro-melanchthon lutheran, he soon went off in his own direction. He wrote a text called the true christianity. It provided a spiritual roadmap for the lutheran christian: arndt"s influences. He was building on the tradition of earlier texts like thomas a kempis. He also drew upon the mystical tradition just as ignatius had. Although he tended to prefer the theologia deutsch.
