"fireheart, why do you cry?"
"because i am lost. and i do not know the way"
"you have been very brave," her mother said. "you have been very brave, for so very long"
"but you must be brave a little while longer, my fireheart"
"you must be brave a little while longer, and remember.."
her mother placed a phantom hand over aelin’s heart.
"it is the strength of this that matters. no matter where you are, no matter how far, this will lead you home"
"it is the strength of this that matters, aelin"
"you do not yield."
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Evangelicals inherited two important traits from Pietism.
First, emotion played so large a part in the Pietists’ religious life that reason was downplayed. Since the mind could not fathom the mysteries of human destiny, feelings were left to carry the meaning of faith.
Second, Pietism assumed the existence of the institutional church. It made no frontal attacks on it. But it shifted what was essential to Christianity—the new birth and the spiritual life—from the traditional state churches to smaller fellowship groups or voluntary associations of believers.
Pietism arose as a reaction to this ossification of the Reformation. Just as Jansenism opposed the cheap grace of the French Jesuits, so the Pietists challenged the nominal faith of German Lutheranism.
The aims of the Pietists were twofold: First, they stressed the importance of personal faith. They left behind all dreams of Catholic Christendom and Puritan commonwealths. They believed that Christianity starts with the individual. So for the first time in Christian history, the idea of conversions of baptized Christians (as well as pagans) came to prominence.
Second, the Pietists wanted to shift the center of the Christian life from the state churches, in which a person was born and brought up, to intimate fellowships of those who had a living faith in God. Revitalized laypeople from these centers were expected to spread the Word of God through all classes of men and women.
Görüyor musun?" dedi, "Bilme tutkusu insanları nasıl bir sona sürüklüyor. Görmek, duymak, bilmek ve öğrenmek isteyen şu zavallı cerraha gösterilmeyen saygı, sadece karanlığı, soğuğu ve sessizliği algılayan ve hiçliği bilen bir cesede gösteriliyor. Onu katleden bu insanlar evlerine döndüklerinde belki de çocuklarına Kubelik'in acı so-unu ibretle anlatacaklar ve bilginin tehlikelerini birer birer sayacaklar.
Many in the next generation, the first of the eighteenth century, felt fewer obligations to the Christian past, so instead of trying to harmonize nature and Scripture, they simply set aside revelation. Many intellectuals claimed that the parts of the Bible that agree with reason are clearly unnecessary. The parts that contradict reason—the myths, miracles, and priestly elements—are simply untrue. This more militant attitude against the faith was especially evident in France.
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