23 January 2011

Who said that?

 "Who said that?....  Was it you?"  ~ Gunny Hartman (heavily edited)

Here is a counter-cultural quote from a Lutheran theologian (the name mentioned in the quote has been removed to increase the difficulty factor).  So, who said it?

"We should stop stabbing at pietism.  It is always misunderstood, so that one would think that we disdain conversion and lack a sense of the factor of personal responsibility in Christianity....  Personally, I am convinced that the portion of pietism, which is found in *****, is useful for salvation, not to mention necessary."
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8 comments:

  1. KTuesday, January 25, 2011 at 12:18:00 AM CST

    Bonhoeffer

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  2. The Rev. BT BallTuesday, January 25, 2011 at 11:22:00 AM CST

    Curtis writing about Fritz. Or...
    Petersen writing about Fritz

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  3. Rev. Eric J BrownTuesday, January 25, 2011 at 6:37:00 PM CST

    Some closet pietist? >=o)

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  4. Rev. Larry BeaneWednesday, January 26, 2011 at 9:57:00 PM CST

    Good guesses, but none are correct.

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  5. Pastor FoyThursday, January 27, 2011 at 4:46:00 PM CST

    Either Fr. Harrison, Pieper or Walther

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  6. Tapani SimojokiMonday, January 31, 2011 at 6:38:00 AM CST

    I wish it were Sasse, but I suspect it was Giertz.

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  7. Tapani SimojokiMonday, January 31, 2011 at 6:40:00 AM CST

    Unless of course it was Loehe.

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  8. Rev. Larry BeaneTuesday, February 1, 2011 at 4:36:00 PM CST

    Dear Tapani:

    My Scandinavian father and brother, you are right in offering up Bo Giertz!

    It's found in the newly-released anthology "A Hammer for God" edited by Eric Andrae, from the opening essay by the general editor called: "Bishop Bo Harald Giertz: Pietism and the Ordo Salutis," pages 64-65.

    The citation is from a February 1938 letter from Giertz to Gunnar Rosendal.

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