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Pietism

A seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Protestant movement emphasizing inner devotion and the life of the heart.

Christian mysticism

Pietism arose in Lutheran Germany with Philipp Jakob Spener and August Hermann Francke, stressing personal conversion, Bible study, small groups and practical charity over doctrinal orthodoxy. It influenced Zinzendorf and the Moravians, Wesley and Methodism, and through them modern evangelical spirituality.