("The Pietist") was a Swedish Christian monthly publication "for religious revival and edification", founded in January 1842 by the Scottish

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minister George Scott, who had immigrated to Sweden, and edited by preacher

Carl Olof Rosenius Carl Olof Rosenius (February 3, 1816 – February 24, 1868) was a Swedish lay preacher, author and editor of the monthly ''Pietisten'' (The Pietist) from 1842 to 1868.''Twice-Born Hymns'' by J. Irving Erickson, (Chicago: Covenant Press, 1976 ...

until his death in 1868, after which the editorship was taken over by Paul Peter Waldenström. In the last years, the editorial staff included Janne Nyrén (1914–1915), Johan Peter Norberg (from 1916), Theodor Andersson (from 1917) and Jakob Emanuel Lundahl (1918). Around 10,000 copies of the journal were published between 1853 and 1865. The journal was for the

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but was spread widely: selections were copied, translated, and published freely at the time. A

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version entitled ('The Evangelical Messenger') was also published. The word ''pietist'', from the Latin word , meaning 'piety, godliness', refers to the

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movement. During Rosenius' editorship, the magazine was essentially written by him, and was his main literary channel. In this way it had a great influence. His articles have subsequently been published as reflections and writings with a total circulation of two million, and another million in other languages, despite the fact that they are not particularly reader-friendly. Rosenius and Waldenström contributed to the founding of Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen (EFS, the Swedish Evangelical Mission, 1856) and the Svenska Missionsförbundet (SMF, Swedish Mission Society, 1878), the former being a revivalist movement within the

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, the latter a

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. This contradiction led the EFS, in reaction to the founding of the SMF, to reissue the first fifteen volumes under the title ''Pietisten''. , which Rosenius had edited, while ''Pietisten'' under Waldenström became the official voice of the SMF in 1909 and was merged with the magazine ''Missionsförbundet'' in 1919.

''Pietisten'' (1986–present)

A namesake journal, self-described as the "spiritual heir" of the original ''Pietisten'', has been published in

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since its founding in 1986 by David Hawkinson and Peter Sandstrom.

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''Pietisten''
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''Pietisten''
the English-language "spiritual heir" to the original ''Pietisten'' {{Authority control Magazines published in Sweden Christian magazines Publications established in 1842 Pietism