Josiah
Puritan Board Senior
James T. Dennison, Jr., dean of NWTS. He said it as a warning to me, not to put too much emphasis on piety. I do think he is right.
I know of some evangelicals who emphasize piety at the expense of right doctrine. And, that was what German Pietism was all about and yet, I see people doing the same thing. Like Spener, they talk about a "heart religion" instead of a "head religion," as if doctrine and piety contradict each other. Just listen to emergent people talk; They talk about being able to reach those at the fringes of society and yet they do so at the expense of doctrine.
I had a feeling it was one of the Dennisons
I remember Charlie Dennison, in a lecutre for Family Bible Conference in Northern CA cited examples from OPC history mentioning the kind of trouble that Pietism (peniel/newlife movement) had caused the OPC.
