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In, Franckfurt am Mayn,, verlegt Von Zunnerischen Erben, und Joh. Adam Jungen.: MDCCXV. [1715]. 1715
" Philipp Jakob Spener(1635-1705) Central figure in the development of, and chief apologist of Lutheran Pietism. ""He grew up in surroundings in which a mixture of Arndtian and Puritan Piety set the tone for daily living..."" ""Spener's biographers and the historians of Lutheran Pietism have manifested a tendency to treat his work as a seventeenth century novelty. They have called him the `father of Pietism' when in reality his life and thought constitute the highest development of a movement which had been in progress for a hundred years. In the background...
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