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    Eric Jonas Swensson is an author, blogger, historian, and social media director. He was a pastor for 17 years before resigning to go overseas on the trip that became the basis for his book, A Year in Tyr (2011). His dissertation has been published as Kinderbeten: The Origin, Unfolding, and Interpretations of the Silesian Children's Prayer Revival (Wipf & Stock, 2010). Google+

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    Roger Olson and Christian Winn: Reclaiming Pietism
    Pietists as Pentecostal Forerunners
    The Petersens and the Silesian Kinderbeten Revival
    Holy Warriors by Jonathan Phillips and The Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins
Church History, Fall 2015

Roger Olson and Christian Winn: Reclaiming Pietism

by Eric Swensson October 22, 2015 0
Roger E. Olson and Christian T. Collins Winn, Reclaiming Pietism: Retrieving an Evangelical Tradition (Eerdmans, 2015), 204 pages, ISBN 9780802869098. If my mainline... Read more.
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Church History, Summer 2012

Pietists as Pentecostal Forerunners

by Eric Swensson August 1, 2012 5
Excerpts from the paper “The Petersens and the Silesian Kinderbeten Revival” by Eric Jonas Swensson. Lutheranism is a tradition born out of a dispute within... Read more.
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In Depth, Summer 2012

The Petersens and the Silesian Kinderbeten Revival

by Eric Swensson June 20, 2012 0
Read the excerpts from this paper that appeared in the Summer 2012 issue of Pneuma Review: Pietists as Pentecostal Forerunners Eric Jonas Swensson’s paper, “The... Read more.
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Church History, Summer 2010

Holy Warriors by Jonathan Phillips and The Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins

by Eric Swensson August 31, 2010 0
Double review of Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades by Jonathan Phillips and The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand Year Golden Age of the Church... Read more.
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