Niezwykły klejnot wiary, czyli o duchowej bliskości pietyzmu i Oświecenia. Na przykładzie poezji religijnej Hansa Adolpha Brorsona (1694–1764)

Abstract

This paper tries to present Pietism as a current and set of ideas linked to the Enlightenment, as a culture focused on individualism and “subjectification”, as well as on the need to dismantle the old authorities and hierarchies. Such a way of thinking is visible in the religious poetry at that time, with the Danish pastor Hans Adolph Brorson. His main work The Rare Jewel of the Faith (Troens rare Klenodie, 1739), a collection of hymns used in the Danish and Norwegian church till today, belongs to the canon of the Danish literature.