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Dear Sir,

Kenneth J. Stewart is right to point out in his July letter that I should have been more careful in my statements about Pietism in the 18th century. All sorts of helpful changes came from this German-based renewal movement and we benefit from them to this day. Church historian G. R. Cragg is similarly positive. He devotes an entire page to its merits in his The Church and the Age of Reason (Pelican 1970).

Dear Editor,

I am largely in agreement with Ranald Macaulay’s concern over the prevalent evangelical tendency to shun engagement with society and its worrisome tendencies (en June ‘Evangelicalism in Crisis’). Yet I believe that his readiness to point the finger at European Pietism as providing an explanation of the origin of this tendency does not bear careful scrutiny.