Plenary and Panel Topics

Plenary Addresses

Donald Dayton
“Why Study Pietism?: The Significance of the Pietist Impulse in Christianity”

Emilie Griffin
"We of the Broken Body: Toward a Piety of Hope and Reconciliation”

Shirley Mullen
“The ‘Strangely Warmed’ Mind: John Wesley, Piety, and Higher Education”

Roger Olson
“Pietism: Myths and Realities”

Jonathan Strom
“The Challenge of Pietism for the Ministry and the Laity”

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Panel Topics

• Issues in Classical Pietism
• The Halle Tradition
• Pietism and Christian Missions
  
• Hymnody and Worship
  
• Social and Political Engagement
  
• Early and Later Developments in Pietist Thought
  
• Intellectual History and Philosophical Issues
  
• The Integration of Faith and Learning
  
• Panels on Pietism in the Moravian, Wesleyan/Holiness, and Baptist traditions
  
• A special roundtable on Pietism in Scandinavian-American denominations

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