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Philip Jacob Spener's Contribution to the Protestant Doctrine of the Church by Dennis McCallum

Dennis McCallum's latest book "Satan and His Kingdom"

1987

Contents:

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• Introduction
• Spener's Background
• The elements of Spener's Program
• Spener's Ecclesiological Distinctives
  • The Definition of the church
  • Church order
  • Church Ritual
  • Church Discipline
  • Church Finance
• Pre-reformation sources of pietistic ecclesiology
  • Thomas a Kempis
  • Meister Eckhard
  • Johannus Tauler
  • Theologia Germanica (German Theology)
  • Heinrich Suso
• Post Reformation Sources of Pietistic Ecclesiology
  • Jacob Boehme
  • Denck, Schwenckfeld, Franck and Weigel
  • Jean de Labadie
  • The Quakers
  • Other Arndtians
  • The Waldensians
• The Effect of Mysticism on Ecclesiology
• The Churchly Pietistic Movement
  • Pietistic Conventicles
  • Francke
  • Zinzindorf
  • Wesley
• The Radical Pietistic Revolt
  • Arnold
  • Hochman
  • Mack
• The Legacy of Pietism in History
• Endnotes
• Bibliography

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