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Considered by many to be one of the most influential German Pietists, August Hermann Francke lived during a moment when an emphasis on conversion was beginning to produce small shifts in how the sacraments were defined—a harbinger of later, more dramatic changes to come in evangelical theology. In this book, Peter James Yoder uses Francke and his theology as a case study for the ecclesiological stirrings that led to the rise of evangelicalism and global Protestantism.Engaging extensively with Francke’s manuscript sermons and writings, Yoder approaches Francke’s life and religious thought through his theology of the sacraments. In doing so, Yoder delivers key insights into the structure of Francke's Pietist thought, providing a rich depiction of his conversion-driven theology and how it shaped his views of the sacraments and the church. The first in-depth study of Francke’s theology written for an English-speaking audience, this book supports recent scholarship in English that not only challenges long-held assumptions about Pietism but also argues for the role of Pietism’s influence on the changing religious landscape of the eighteenth century. Through his examination of Francke’s theology of the sacraments, Yoder presents a fresh view into the eighteenth-century ecclesiological developments that caused a rupture with the dogmas of the Reformation.Original and vital, this study recognizes Francke’s importance to the history of Pietism in Germany and beyond. It will become the standard reference on Francke for American audiences and will influence scholarship on Lutheranism, Pietism, early modern German studies, and eighteenth-century history and religion.

Pietism --- Sacraments. --- History --- Francke, August Hermann, --- August Hermann Francke. --- Early Evangelicalism. --- Early Modern Lutheranism. --- Ecclesiology. --- German Pietism. --- Lutheran Pietism. --- Lutheran Theology. --- Pietism. --- Sacramental Theology.

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Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, sacramental theology has evolved as a discipline advancing comprehensive theories of sacraments and sacramentality as integral to the Christian faith while also studying the history and theology of the particular rites. Now, in the twenty-first century, the need for attention to the actual performance and specific social settings of sacramental worship has become well established. This makes the work of sacramental theology necessarily engaged with multiple, cross-disciplinary theories attentive to particular contexts, whether local, national, or global. Still, the divine human encounter at the heart of Christian symbol and ritual likewise beckons to philosophical–theological reflection. The essays in this volume begin with profound philosophical perspectives on the personal and communal sacramental experience, expanding from traditional cosmology to evolutionary and chaos theories of our planetary existence, continuing with shifts, especially among youth, to interreligious and non-institutional perspectives, consideration of change in popular notions of guilt, and social–ethical issues in relation to liturgical theology and practice, so as finally to return to fundamental theological reflection on human sacramentality and divine revelation.

liturgy --- Holy Spirit --- symbol --- Antoine Vergote --- laity --- revelation --- theological ethics --- sacrament --- sacramental universe --- E.O. Wilson --- pansacramentalism --- ecological grace --- coloniality --- Jean-Yves Lacoste --- liturgical theology --- ontology --- climate change --- critical realism --- Second Vatican Council --- baptism --- sacrament of penance --- spirituality --- disaffiliation --- hermeneutics --- history of Catholicism in the United States --- mystagogy --- post-colonial theory --- ekstasis --- Emmanuel Falque --- drones --- Jean-Luc Marion --- sacramentality --- Eucharist --- psychoanalysis --- phenomenology --- lived religion --- ecology --- frequent communion --- Roman Catholic Church --- communal ontology --- moral theology --- pandemonium tremendum --- creation --- chaos theory --- agency --- interreligious studies --- social structures --- John Zizioulas --- theology --- decoloniality --- Synod on the Youth --- vocation --- interreligious --- confession --- Pneumatology --- ritual theory --- Epic of Evolution --- social theory --- apophaticism --- Margaret Archer --- Catholic guilt --- sacramental theology