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"In an age in which the church is badly divided by politics and culture wars, The Pietist Option offers a better way. Chris Gehrz and Mark Pattie invite us to embark on a spiritual pilgrimage defined by loving our neighbors, living in hope, and listening to God. It is indeed time to reconsider the Pietist roots of American evangelicalism." (John Fea, Messiah College, author of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?)"Warning! The cheeky title of this book is misleading. You'll find no snark here, no polemics. If you're looking for a pugnacious encounter, go elsewhere. What you will find here is an immensely winsome vision, drawing on the riches of the Pietist tradition but addressed to all who seek 'to live as if Jesus Christ has actually conquered the grave.'" (John Wilson, editor, Education & Culture)"One of my mentors used to describe himself as 'a Pietist with a PhD.' After reading The Pietist Option, I know more deeply what he meant, and I realize more clearly why his winsome spirit won my heart. This book invites us all into a more just and generous way of following Christ in today's world." (Brian D. McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration)"The Pietist Option is a timely historical reminder deserving careful attention from today's church. So much emphasis is now given to getting words right, whether in doctrine or in divisive positions on social issues. It's far more important to get the lives of believers right, with a faith that integrates body, mind, and spirit. The Pietists understood this. We should learn that a warm and spiritually vital faith in Christ doesn't withdraw from the world in forms of spiritual escapism during times of political strife and social upheaval, but leads to creative engagement in society with the liberating love of God. Further, the Pietists saw the urgent need, in their turbulent time, for the unity of the church, not accomplished through arguments over doctrine but in the heartfelt bonds of shared faith. The church can be enriched by an informed reconsideration of the Pietist movement, which this book provides." (Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, general secretary emeritus, Reformed Church in America, author of From Times Square to Timbuktu)"For many people, both inside and outside communities of faith, Christianity has become captive to blind allegiances that are driven more by fear than a concern for justice, more interested in building walls than expressing love and solidarity with neighbors who are different. If the church is going to break the stranglehold of these allegiances so that loyalty to Jesus and the kingdom he preached is placed back at the center of the life of faith, then the Pietist vision offered here will surely play an important role. Gehrz and Pattie offer a clear-eyed vision of faithful practice fired by the hope of the gospel that animated the original 'Pietist option,' and they do so without slavishly repeating seventeenth-century proposals. What is offered here is a compelling and practical vision that is geared toward our own contemporary challenges and context. This is a timely and much-needed work that should be warmly embraced by Christians from across the spectrum." (Christian T. Collins Winn, Bethel University, coauthor of Reclaiming Pietism)"This is a very helpful book, introducing and reintroducing historical pietism to the contemporary church. Grounded in history, as it is modeled after Philipp Jacob Spener's Pia Desideria, it is pastorally wise, sensitive, and missionally relevant. Pietism offers a vital faith for the head, the heart, and the hands. Perhaps this provocative and winsome book will allow us to claim a usable past to further the mission and ministry of the church today." (David W. Kersten, dean of North Park Theological Seminary, VP of church relations, North Park University)"Mark and Chris love God, the church, and the world. Here they ponder, Does warmhearted Pietism have something to offer in a world of overheated debates? This book offers no certain paths forward, but it does remind us that Pietism, with its emphases on a living personal faith, deep commitment to wanting to be guided by Scripture, engaging in mission to the world, and generous fellowship, just might have something to offer." (Gary Walter, president of the Evangelical Covenant Church)"This is a timely book. The issues that led to the Pietist movement are present in different forms in the church today. Church attendance and participation are declining. A growing portion of the emerging generation finds little value in what the church seems to offer. For many, the evangelical expression of the church has become a political movement more than a source of life-giving hope. This book offers an alternative with roots in an earlier movement where faith is a relationship, not merely a philosophy of life. The following quote from the book captures the essence: 'That's primarily how Pietists know God: not through propositions (what we believe about the idea of God), but prepositions (how we relate to the person of God), as we experience a living faith through Jesus Christ, who is Emmanuel, God with us.'" (Glenn R. Palmberg, president emeritus, Evangelical Covenant Church)"The Pietist Option is historically faithful, biblically rooted, and encouraging. Christopher Gehrz and Mark Pattie III help us see how Christ-followers in past centuries faced challenging issues in ways that are relevant to current events. Gehrz has meaningfully elevated Bethel University's Pietist roots to current day relevance as we commit to engage the world's most challenging problems, to God's glory and for our neighbors' good. The Pietist Option has wisdom for the church, the academy, and the neighborhood. I'm thankful for this resource." (Jay Barnes, president, Bethel University)
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About the Author
Christopher Gehrz (PhD, Yale) is professor of history at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he also helps coordinate the Christianity and Western Culture program. He is the editor of The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education and coeditor of The Pietist Impulse in Christianity.
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Product details
Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: IVP Academic (October 3, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0830851941
ISBN-13: 978-0830851942
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5.8 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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As a Christian college professor teaching our general education capstone course, I help guide my students, who mostly come from non-denominational church backgrounds, through the process of thinking about how their faith tradition might shape their approach to living out their faith in the public sphere. The instructional team provides some examples of richly developed theologies such as the Reformed tradition, Catholic Social Teaching, and others from which the students are called to identify their own approach. As their instructor I have tried to model my personal background and understanding and this has led me to explore my own religious upbringing in what I can now identify as the Pietist tradition. Gerhrz’ and Pattie’s, The Pietist Option: Hope for the Renewal of Christianity, explores the impulses found in the Pietist practices and writings of the past and then suggest ways to embody them in our contemporary setting. Pietism is known for the drive to develop a deep and meaningful relationship with Jesus Christ as opposed to the “dead orthodoxy†of mere religion or biblical knowledge. But it is less well known for its commitment to the development of the body of the church as a community of believers who are motivated by that relationship to seek unity among Christians, to desire lives and communities to be transformed in the power of Jesus, and to expect that God “will continue to break into the world in unexpected ways, bringing new life where otherwise there is death.†(pp. 8) This happens when believers make a conscious choice (to select the option) to respond fully to the grace of God and let the Spirit guide their transformation. The Pietist Option is choosing a life and walk with Jesus not merely beliefs about him. As with the original pietists, the authors of The Pietist Option, identify areas where Christians and the church of the 21st Century fail to live up to the biblical calling. Then they lay out six proposals to renew individuals, the church and the world. Three of these resonated strongly with me. First, in chapter three, there was the call to approach the Word of God as an altar of transformation rather than a source of information or policy. While the latter is not unimportant, the former is what sustains us in both the difficult times but also in the mundane when we are most prone to wander from faithfulness. I also took notice of chapter five’s emphasis on Christianity as Life emphasizing a faith that engages the head, heart, and hands. I primarily teach science students and when asked to identify where their science studies overlap their faith, they tend to reach only for doctrinal statements or questions of origins. But I continue to push them to see their discipline as a source for understanding the physical needs and concerns of the material world (head), as an area of brokenness that needs redemption like the rest of society (heart), and as a potential set of solutions to health care, climate change, loss of species and other scientific issues (hands). I seek to help them understand that their disciplinary studies are part of equipping them for their life in service to God. This leads directly to chapter seven on Whole-Person, Whole-Life Formation which reflects the mission and vision statements of my own institution that seeks to “Shape Lives to Shape the World.†Again, the starting point is Jesus and a relationship with him which then leads to transforming lives and developing Christ-followers to bring healing and redemption to the community of faith and then to the whole world. Overall, I was most struck by the positive nature of the book as articulated in the Pietist impulse toward the belief in “hope for better times.†Traditional and social media both tend to highlight how things are going wrong, especially in today’s political climate. Christian writers are often indistinguishable from others in this way. But we cannot forget that the Kingdom of God has already begun. God is always on the move, bringing the world towards redemption and restoration. The church’s call is to be the witness and agent of the Spirit’s actions. The Pietist Option is to humbly choose to walk with Jesus and let him bring about transformation in ourselves, our churches, and through them, the world.
At first blush, it appears that The Pietist Option was written in response to a popular book by Rod Dreher entitled, The Benedict Option. But that sells the book far too short. After a careful reading, I don’t recall the authors ever mentioning Dreher’s book at all. The Benedict Option, for those who are unfamiliar, is a proposed approach to Christian life in the 21st century, a withdrawal into local Christian communities and away from the culture wars and the “barbarians at the gateâ€, so to speak, in order to more intentionally form deeply Christian people. It is, in sense, an adapted monasticism for the 21st century.While the authors spend a brief time in the “bad news†of why a book like this is needed, the overwhelming majority of the book is focused on moving forward, and they do so by drawing on the Pietist movement of the late 17th century. Pattie and Gehrz make a hopeful and compelling case not for opting out of culture, but for opting in - choosing to live deeply Christian lives through which we engage culture in the transformative power of resurrection, the Holy Spirit, and faith. To do so, the authors draw from the form and content of a formative document for Pietists written in 1675, Philipp Jacob Spener’s Pia Desideria.Spener’s Desideria laid out his hopes (the title translates as Pious Desires) for Pietists in six proposals for renewal. The authors take these six proposals and adapt them to current reality, the state of society and the state of the Church. Over the course of the book the authors consider the importance of the word of God, the priesthood of all believers, a living faith in which love of God and love of neighbor are paramount, the importance of unity and peace with Christians from other theological traditions, the call for our education to be transformational in addition to informational, and the proclamation of the good news of God’s love in word and deed. Each of these is drawn from Spener, then broadened and, where fitting, adapted to speak to our culture and day.I found the book refreshing and hopeful. In a day when division is the name of the game and the possibilities of real conversation (to say nothing of healing and reconciliation) seem beyond the pale of current societal, political, and ecclesiastical realities, The Pietist Option reminded me of my own denominational heritage and gave me hope for a better way forward. As Gehrz and Pattie make their case, they throw light and energy on a solid framework for what they refer to as their “hope for better days.â€For followers of Christ looking for a way forward to “better days,†The Pietist Option is a much needed primer on the true nature of Pietism and its important contributions to Church History and our future, as well. The authors draw deeply from the well of their own ecclesiastical history and experience, providing ample examples and inspiration for how these proposals might play out in our day. If you are at all interested in what Pietism has to say to us today and how such a revival might transform the way followers of Jesus interact with one another and our world, then I encourage to read The Pietist Option. It is very accessible, highly readable, and thought-provoking.If I have any “criticisms" of the book, I can think of only one: I wish it had been longer! I would love to read even more about how Pietism might impact our lives and relationships in various ways. But perhaps that is to ask too much. For the authors never intend to answer all of our questions. They set out to prompt the reader to reconsider our way in the world and in mission, and this they have done quite well.
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