Rad Rod on Pietism
I ran across a great two (2) part program on Issues, Etc. entitled "Pietism: Experiential, Legalistic & Individualistic Spirituality." It features Dr. Rod Rosenbladt who is a co-host on the White Horse Inn. It is worth finding the time to listen to both Hour 1 and Hour 2.
Labels: Piety
posted by Thomas @ 8:56 PM
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Thanks for the link to this excellent resource. I'm afraid most pietistic preachers who simply stopped all their inward, second tablet preaching wouldn't have much left to say.
I found Dr. Rosenblat's discussion on the Lutheran Pietists very interesting. What an enemy to the gospel!
Of course the pietistic preachers always defend themselves saying they're "just preaching the text." Blah, blah, blah, what a pietistic thing to say. The atomizing of imperative texts away from the external and alien righteousness of Christ is a biblicism that isn't biblical.
This has me thinking, so I'm going to be blogging more on this myself.
I enjoyed these too. I think the confessional Lutherans have something valuable to teach us here.
The December 4th broadcast on Issues, etc also focused on pietism, but not with Dr. Rosenblat. While some of the Dec 4th broadcast was helpful, it seems to my untrained-Lutheran ear that they may deny sanctification. Something to watch out for.
I've only listened to Dr. Rosenblat's discussion, so I can't comment yet on the other stuff, but I'm impressed with his understanding of sanctification.
One of the things that is very tricky in this area is that pietistic preaching is often done by men who genuinely want to help people with their sanctification. I say "tricky" because pietistic preaching is the enemy of sanctification. While fruit and good works can be distinguished, they are inextricably linked, thus sanctification is secondary and an effect rather than primary and the cause.
Let me put it another way: sanctification is the result of believing the gospel and not the other way around.
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