Let Truth Prevail: An Introduction to European Christian Renewal Movements
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Overview
Through the centuries, marginalized Christian renewal movements have challenged the status quo of the religious establishment, often at great cost. These nonmainstream religious movements generally receive little attention in standard introductions, but Let Truth Prevail tells their story, surveying the history, beliefs, and practices of various medieval and post-Reformation European renewal movements:
17th-century German Pietists
18th-century Scottish restoration movements
Hussites
Hutterites
Magisterial Protestants and Catholics
Mennonites
The Moravian Brethren
The Schwarzenau Brethren Swiss Brethren
Taborites
The Unity of the Brethren
Waldensians
Allen Diles classifies these groups as restoration movements, calling attention to their enduring legacies. Each reacted against perceived corruptions in the church and sought to renew faithfulness to God’s truth and his intended ideals as they applied Scripture to their historical context.
Though Let Truth Prevail demonstrates the strengths of these renewal movements, the book also considers their limitations. Current readers can challenge their own self-understanding of history, God, faith, Scripture, and the practice of the Christian way by reflecting on these marginalized believers.
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- Explores marginalized Christian renewal movements.
- Classifies these groups as restoration movements, calling attention to their enduring legacies.
- Demonstrates the strengths of these renewal movements.
Today, there is a longing for a Bible-based Christianity that takes discipleship seriously. But this same longing can be found throughout the history of the church. Anyone interested in church renewal needs to be familiar with the stories that Diles so engagingly tells. The faith of these Christians—many of whom died for their convictions—is inspiring, and there are valuable insights to be gleaned from Diles’s comparison of these European renewal movements.
—Mark E. Powell, Dean and Professor of Theology, Harding School of Theology, Memphis, TN
In this survey of select Christian renewal movements of the last eight centuries, Diles proves to be a reliable guide through what many consider the margins of church history. Readers are effectively introduced to a variety of groups united around the primacy of the New Testament, sacramental renewal, clerical reform, moral living, and, above all, the courage to pursue the truth at all costs. These accounts should inspire our current generation to join this ongoing pursuit of truth.
—Keith Stanglin, author of The Reformation to the Modern Church
Something important happens when we set our own restoration movement alongside the stories of earlier ones. We begin to see how time, context, and tradition always shape the restoring agenda. Allen Diles’s stories of earlier restoration efforts in Europe are compelling—and guaranteed to enrich and reorient our perspective on faithful Christian discipleship today.
—Leonard Allen, author of In the Great Stream: Imagining Churches of Christ in the Christian Tradition
- Title: Let Truth Prevail: An Introduction to European Christian Renewal Movements
- Author: R. Allen Diles
- Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781684262410, 1684262410
- Resource ID: LLS:LTTRTHRNWMVMNTS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-02T15:15:09Z