Events Tagged: "Spener"

Philipp Jakob Spener publishes 'Pia Desideria' - Manifesto of Pietist movement - Calls for 'little churches within the church' - Six proposals for reform that bypass institutional church - Creates paradox: Inner spiritual freedom requires external mutual surveillance

Spener's Frankfurt Conventicles Condemned - Lutheran authorities ban his private religious meetings (collegia pietatis) - Spener responds by making them more secretive - Orthodox Lutherans warn: 'These conventicles breed spiritual pride and separation'

Spener Becomes Provost in Berlin - Frederick III personally recruits him from Dresden - Pietism now has direct access to Prussian power center - Spener's private conventicles include high government officials