PHILIPP JACOB SPENER

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Die evangelische Lebens-Pflichten

FOURTH EDITION (1ST ed. Frankfurt 1692). "Philip Jacob Spener (1635-1705) is credited with forging the ideas of Arndt into a reform movement within Lutheranism. Like Arndt, he was a Lutheran pastor and scholar. He was deeply influenced by (Arndt's) True Christianity (1605), and in 1675, he wrote a foreword to a new edition of True Christianity. This foreword, reissued separately a year later, was entitled Pia Desideria, or Heartfelt Desire for a God-pleasing Reform of the True Evangelical Church, Together with Several Simple Christian Proposals Looking Toward this End. As the title suggests, this work not only critiqued the spiritual state of German Lutheranism; it also outlined a plan of reform. It was greeted with an enthusiastic response by many German people, but with sharp criticism by much of the the clergy. In his subsequent works, Spener continued to outline the needed reform of the Lutheran church"( Gary DeLashmutt at www.xenos.org/essays/pietism). Contemporary full calf, spines richly gilt in six compartments, red edges.