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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
• Bibliography

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