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Johann Arndt

Born
1555
Died
1621

Lutheran pastor and devotional theologian whose True Christianity joined repentance, faith, prayer, and holy living in a work that deeply influenced later Lutheran devotion and Pietism.

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Works and bibliography

1 work in TrinityLibrary

True Christianity

Johann Arndt discusses the soul, love, and prayer in True Christianity. The opening subject is “on sincere repentance, true faith, the holy walk of the true Christian, etc.”
1605–1610Devotional theologyRead