Living for God: Eighteenth-Century Dutch Pietist Autobiography

Living for God: Eighteenth-Century Dutch Pietist Autobiography

by Fred van Lieburg
     
 

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This book describes all aspects of daily religious life of pious Reformed people in the Netherlands between 1720-1820 on the basis of the autobiographies of 14 men and 6 women. Sources are explored thematically, with each chapter describing one section of Pietist life.See more details below

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This book describes all aspects of daily religious life of pious Reformed people in the Netherlands between 1720-1820 on the basis of the autobiographies of 14 men and 6 women. Sources are explored thematically, with each chapter describing one section of Pietist life.

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August 2006 Reference and Research Book News
In this study of the international pietist movement as in appeared amongst Dutch Calvinists and the Reformed Church in Holland, van Lieburg (Protestant history, Vrije U., Amsterdam) notes that Dutch pietism was a major influence in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia and in fact held its own beside England and Germany. He uses the personal accounts of 14 men and six women to explain how they came to their practices and beliefs about youth and vanity, the conversion process, the experience of the saints, marriage, the concept of the church, the world, and the Word, the Walk and writing.
Calvin Theological Journal
The author is to be commended and thanked for such an important contruibution to an illuminating and important series.
Reference and Research Book News
In this study of the international pietist movement as in appeared amongst Dutch Calvinists and the Reformed Church in Holland, van Lieburg (Protestant history, Vrije U., Amsterdam) notes that Dutch pietism was a major influence in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia and in fact held its own beside England and Germany. He uses the personal accounts of 14 men and six women to explain how they came to their practices and beliefs about youth and vanity, the conversion process, the experience of the saints, marriage, the concept of the church, the world, and the Word, the Walk and writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9780810851047
Publisher:
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Publication date:
03/28/2006
Series:
Pietist and Wesleyan Studies, #18
Pages:
188
Product dimensions:
8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.43(d)

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