Evangelicals inherited two important traits from Pietism. First, emotion played so large a part in the Pietist’s religious life that reason was endangered. Since the mind of man could not fathom the mysteries of human destiny, feelings were left to carry the meaning of faith. Consequently Pietism had little to say about God’s place in nature or human history. And it presented few challenges to the spread of secularism. Evangelicals often surrendered to the same weakness.
