(...)he was further influenced by the Pietism that had swept through that congregation 70 years earlier through the influence of revivalist author and preacher Carl Olof Rosenius. It is not as surprising as it might seem that Rosenius’s influence was still felt; he had been a looming presence, for instance, in the household of artist David Wallin as he grew up in the same parish a generation earlier. Giertz, too, fell under his posthumous sway, to the extent that the Latin phrase Verbum crucis Dei virtus (“The message of the cross is the power of God”, 1 Cor. 18) came to embody his work; it was later to be the motto he adopted as bishop. During this time Giertz began to take seriously Schartauanism, a form of Pietism that had developed in western Sweden — teachings which had been greatly influenced by the works of Henric Schartau — and became inspired by Bokenäs vicar Gösta Nelson. By now he had come to feel that he was falling short of God’s moral dictates; whereas he had previously thought forgiveness of sins grounded in faith alone to have been a “hopelessly naïve” position, he now came to embrace this doctrine of the western Pietists and to take solace in it
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