ignored clerical assumptions, found himself having to pass a theological examination and to become ordained in order to win acceptance and to hold his group of Moravian followers together. One important innovation was the broad respect accorded to female reli-giosity. Using this term is not meant to imply the speculation of some radical Pietists that postulated the presence of the divine wisdom (sophia) in the world and the androgynous origins of mankind. Those who followed that

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ignored clerical assumptions, found himself having to pass a theological examination and to become ordained in order to win acceptance and to hold his group of Moravian followers together. One important innovation was the broad respect accorded to female reli-giosity. Using this term is not meant to imply the speculation of some radical Pietists that postulated the presence of the divine wisdom (sophia) in the world and the androgynous origins of mankind. Those who followed that

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ABSTRACT

Johannes Wallmann, Philipp Jakob Spener und die Anfänge des Pietismus, 2nd edn, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1986, pp. 240-9.

26 Spener, Pia Desideria, p. 79; cf. ibid. p. 34. 27 Cf. Wallmann, Spener, pp. 302-3. 28 Johann Jakob Schütz, Christliche Lebens-Reguln oder vielmehr Außerlesene

Sprüche aus dem N. Testament, Frankfurt, 1677; cf. Markus Matthias, ‘Collegium pietatis und ecclesiola’, Pietismus und Neuzeit 19, 1993, 58.