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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Mark Safstrom provides an excellent introduction to the Pietist movement in during the ...By B. NygrenThis was a welcomed presentation of original Swedish pietist ideas translated in English, setting the feisty P. P. Waldenström side by side with his more moderate forerunner Carl Rosenius. Mark Safstrom provides an excellent introduction linking English/Scottish to the Pietist movement in Sweden during the nineteenth century. That movement would in short time cross the ocean and lead to the formation of the Evangelical Free and Evangelical Covenant Churches in America. While as a movement is usually associated with polarized holy living and a long list of worldly influences to be avoided (a reputation not wholly undeserved), these excerpts, particularly from Rosenius, illustrate the gentle earnestness and sincere experience of assurance and comfort that form the basis of historical pietism. Fiercely interdenominational and non-creedal, it's noteworthy that the movement in Sweden remains Lutheran and sacramental. The meaning of baptism and communion as sacraments are deepened by the pietist approach rather than abandoned. Neither figure advocated separation from the . Rather criticisms are attributed to the lack of a separation of church and state which had filled the church with people whom they judged to be unbelievers. There is an abundance of original material to compare gentle Rosenius with the more bombastic Waldenström and to contemplate what mark both figures have left on modern evangelicalism. My only complaint is that several selections were not translated in full and the texts are, in several places, broken by an ellipsis [...] in what appears to be the middle of the argument.On a personal note, I was brought to this volume by my interest in the history of the Evangelical . The memoirs of its fascinating founding figure J. G. Princell, detail his ousting from the Swedish-American Lutheran church amidst the Waldenströmian atonement controversy. I'd never heard of Waldenström or his controversy, and the more I read about it, the more I wanted to read directly from the man himself. This collection delivered. Waldenström must have been a formidable and dynamic speaker. He seems a bit of a troublemaker but never took it too far. Rosenius was a bonus for me. He proved gentle, sensitive, gracious and sincere. I have attended Free, Covenant and Lutheran churches and find that Rosenius has something to say to them all. One question I am struggling to answer is how to classify Waldenström's atonement and whether it has been repudiated today or not? Strangely, the EFCA today is not Waldenströmian but seems to owe its existence to him and his theory.

Beginning in the 1830s and stretching into the first decades of the twentieth century, the Lutheran state churches of Scandinavia experienced a great spiritual awakening. At the center of this movement were devotional materials and sermons made accessible through colporteurs and booksellers throughout Scandinavia, as well as among immigrants in North America. Two of the most influential and widely-read authors of this period were the Swedish preachers, Carl Olof Rosenius (1816-1868) and Paul Peter Waldenström (1838-1917), who became household names through their immensely popular devotional journal Pietisten ("The Pietist"). Both men emerged from the long tradition of revivalism within the Lutheran state churches of Europe known as Pietism, and consciously drew on this heritage as they helped to articulate and redefine the priorities of revival Christianity in a new era. This collection includes many excerpts never before translated into English, as well as an accessible and thorough introduction to these authors' careers and historical contexts. Influenced by their irenic tone, simplicity, and evangelical warmth, translator and editor Mark Safstrom makes available some of the best of Rosenius's and Waldenström's writing for a new generation of laypeople, pastors, and scholars.

''This treasure of writings of Swedish Pietists enriches both the mind and soul of the reader. Such writings launched Sweden's spiritual revival of the nineteenth century, and remain timeless in theological breadth and spiritual depth for us in the twenty-first century. What a resource for scholar, pastor, and lay reader alike.''--David M. Gustafson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL''Mark Safstrom's The Swedish Pietists: A Reader is an invaluable resource for scholars in the fields of history, theology, homiletics, and Scandinavian studies. For those interested in Pietism, renewal movements, and devotional practices, Safstrom's excerpts provide an excellent window into the world of a critical movement in church history. The translation work--both in technical skill and choice of excerpts--shows careful scholarship and makes a real contribution.''--Michelle A. Clifton-Soderstrom, Professor of Theology Ethics, North Park Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL --Wipf and Stock PublishersAbout the AuthorMark Daniel Safstrom, PhD, is Lecturer in Swedish and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on various aspects of the history of social movements and revivalism in Scandinavia. He has previously written on such topics as the political career of Paul Peter Waldenström (chapter in The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, 2011), as well as translated Waldenström's allegorical novel Squire Adamsson, Or, Where Do You Live? (2014).

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