While Jonathan Strom’s essay, “Promises and Problems of Pietism Research” (Church History, Sept. 2002) has made waves in the field, Robert Kolb’s recent work has gone under the radar. For a beneficial consideration of current research on seventeenth-century Lutheran orthodoxy see Robert Kolb’s “Lutheran Theology in Seventeenth-Century Germany,” (Lutheran Quarterly, 20:4 Winter 2006).
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