Hope for Better Times The Pietist Option for Lutherans Part 1 Studying History in a Crisis

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Hope for Better Times: The Pietist Option for Lutherans • Part One: Studying History in a Crisis • This course was originally intended to be taught at Roseville (MN) Lutheran Church on Palm Sunday 2020, then moved online because of COVID-19. So before we get to our specific historical subject matter, we should ask: why look to the past when the future looks so uncertain? • In part one of this series, Chris suggests that Christians can better understand who they are — and who they're becoming — by better understanding who they've been. Like many other followers of Jesus Christ, Lutherans can find some of their religious heritage in the history of Pietism, whose founders grew up in the wake of a crisis worse than COVID, yet had an unshakable hope for better times. • Further Reading for Part One • • Chris Gehrz and Mark Pattie, The Pietist Option: Hope for the Renewal of Christianity (InterVarsity Press, 2017), https://www.amazon.com/Pietist-Option... • • Chris Gehrz, The Importance of History During a Pandemic, The Anxious Bench, March 24, 2020, http://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousb... • • Chris Gehrz, About Martin Luther's Letter on the Plague..., The Anxious Bench, March 17, 2020, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxious... • • Chris Gehrz, What the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Meant for American Churches, The Anxious Bench, March 10, 2020, https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxious... • • Dwight Zscheile, Will the ELCA Be Gone in 30 years? , The Faith + Leader, Sept. 5, 2019, https://faithlead.luthersem.edu/decline

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