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Georg Wagner (ca. 1830-1912) was a descendant of German Mennonites who had immigrated much earlier to the Volga area of Russia. Georg married Katarina Simon, and immigrated in 1872 from Russia (via New York) to land near Lehigh, Kansas. Descendants and relatives lived in Kansas, Washington, Idaho and elsewhere.
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The word "pietism" usually conjures up a host of ambivalent im pressions. It has seemed to me increasingly clear that many of the strengths of pietism have been swept aside by reactions against the excesses of the movement. To properly assess the structures of pietism, it is important to comprehend its matrix and to understand its ex ponents. In preparing this study, therefore, I have sought to recapture something of the person of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen as well as the gist of his thought; something of his environment as well as the institutions of his day. To achieve this I have traveled many by-paths and knocked on many doors. But the past has not always yielded its secrets; much i...
Athens and Wittenberg explores how Luther and early Lutheranism did not neglect the classics of Greece and Rome, but continued to draw from the philosophy and poetry of antiquity in their quest to reform the church.