The Pietist Schoolman

The Pietist Schoolman

What Is Pietism?

A movement? A tradition? An ethos?

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Chris Gehrz
Sep 09, 2025
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I can use several terms to describe my religion. Christian. Protestant. Evangelical. Each is problematic — conflicted, contested, confusing — in its own way. But my most elusive religious identifier is the one on the title of this Substack, the one that’s the most meaningful to me: Pietist.

It’s hard enough to define that Mark Pattie1 and I second-guesse…

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