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Bethel to Host National Conference on Pietism
March 2009
From intellectual inquiry to spiritual practice to social reform, pietism has exerted an enormous influence on various forms of Christianity and also on Western culture. “The Pietist Impulse in Christianity,” a conference to be held March 19-21, 2009, at Bethel University, will give scholars from all traditions an opportunity to explore the many dimensions of the pietist heritage, with a view to understanding its ongoing relevance to contemporary problems and questions across disciplines.
Conference speakers will include theologian and church historian Donald Dayton, author of Discovering an Evangelical Heritage; Shirley Mullen, president of Houghton College, and Roger Olson, author of 20th Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age, and professor of theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Baptist General Conference History Center, Bethel University, and the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts. For more information or to register for the conference, visit the website at pietist.bethel.edu.