Post-Reformation Exegesis (1500-1800 AD) pg 58

Confessionalism = Council of Trent with lists of decrees and dogmas for Roman Catholics promted Protestants to develop Creeds wherein Scriptures became handmaids of dogma. Proof Texting was 'IN'.
Pietism = Reaction to the controversy of confessionalism, Phillipp Jakob Spener's (1635-1705 AD) cry to return to “mutual Christian concern and good works.”
Rationalism = Reason is the only authority, using “Magisterial Reason', use of human reason to stand in judgment over God's Word, vs Luther's preferred 'Ministerial Reason”, wherein it helps understand and obey God's Word.

Confessionalism = Council of Trent with lists of decrees and dogmas for Roman Catholics promted Protestants to develop Creeds wherein Scriptures became handmaids of dogma. Proof Texting was 'IN'.