The Norse Church Historian, HG Heggtveit, writes: "The preachers did not stand for the least departure from the Lutheran fathers. A new scholasticism threatened to kill all life and all liberty. They gnawed at the outward shell, ...
He invited the persecuted Bohemian Christians, really a remnant of the old Valdensian lay movement, to settle on his estate. He was led to take a further step than Spener and Francke in regard to the church principle. ...
