Elizabethtown College News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
3/3/04
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E-town College’s Young Center sponsors talk on Colonial PA as fertile ground for Pietistic groups
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – A talk on how Colonial and Early-Republic Pennsylvania provided fertile 
ground for the growth of Pietistic groups will be held at 7:30 p.m., March 15, at the Elizabethtown College Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. The talk by James L. Schwenk, "Patchwork Quilt: Aspirations for Ecumenicity Among Early Pennsylvania Pietists," is open to the public free of charge.
"Sharing many core beliefs and existing in close geographic proximity, these numerous Pietist groups have a mixed record of working cooperatively in achieving common goals," Schwenk said. His presentation will examine these attempts and explore the reasons why close working relationships were not established.
An associate professor of church history at the Evangelical School of Theology in Myerstown, Schwenk is currently serving as Fellow at the Young Center, where he is conducting research on Pietism in Pennsylvania during the Colonial period.
At Elizabethtown College -- central Pennsylvania’s premier small, comprehensive college -- 1800 men and women enjoy personal attention, breadth of curriculum, experiential learning and a commitment to serving others. Elizabethtown has been ranked for 11 consecutive years by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top comprehensive colleges in the North.
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