The Age of Piety and Reason

Question 1

Industry Affects the Church

Answer 1

• Villages abandoned for City Life and Jobs
• Parishes empty
• Need fewer people to run farms (mechanization and consolidation)
• Overcrowding, poor sanitation, low wages, too many people…harder on urban poor. No services to assist them.

Question 2

Renewers affect Religion

Answer 2

Philip Jakob Spener - Frankfort German
August Hermann Francke - German
Nikolaus Zinzendorf - Germany (Lutheran)
John Wesley - England Angelican
Pascal - France Catholic

Question 3

Nicolas Copernicus

Answer 3

Earth revolves around the sun

Question 4

Philip Jakob Spener

Answer 4

Founder of Pietism (personal devotion to God)
Wrote - Pia Desideria (Pious Desires)
Reintroduces theChurch to “koinonia”
Introduces laity education
-Greater private & public use of Scripture
-Greater laity participation
-Believers must “bear fruit”
-Training on piety and learning rather than disputation
-Preaching with an aim for edification

Question 5

August Hermann Francke

Answer 5

German university professor
Introduces
-Mission
-Social service
-Lay & pastoral education

Question 6

Zinzendorf - born 1700

Answer 6

German noble
Started the Moravians
Believed in a personal piety and a religious conversion

Question 7

John Wesley

Answer 7

• Brand plucked from the burning
• Founder of Methodism
• Saved England from a bloody revolution
• Class Meeting & Societies
• Justification by faith through an instantaneous experience of regeneration
• Holiness/Sanctification