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Impediments to Theological Study

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Pietism

  • Martin Luther's excommunication
    In Protestantism: Pietism in the 17th century

    While in Dresden he wrote Impediments to Theological Study (1690), which was hardly calculated to win friends at the famous University of Leipzig, and made the acquaintance of a young instructor, August Hermann Francke (1663–1727), who became his successor and the second great leader of Pietism.

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