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pietism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | religionism, religiosity, religiousism |
| Type of | devoutness, religiousness |
| Derivation | pietistic, pietistical |
pietism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | religious movement |
| Derivation | pietistic, pietistical |
Examples of pietism
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Wesley was influenced by their deep faith and spirituality rooted in pietism.
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Then we all live harmoniously, under the rule of a coercive pietism.
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From this time a mystic pietism became the avowed force of his political, as of his private actions.
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Christian's positive behavior toward his children, however, was overshadowed by his morbid pietism.
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Pietism was a movement within Lutheranism, lasting from the late 17th century to the mid 18th century and later.
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The pietism appealed to the emerging middle class.
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Pietism, with its looser attitude toward confessional theology, had opened the churches to the possibility of uniting.
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Pietism was a major influence on John Wesley and others who began the Methodist movement in 18th century Great Britain.
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It's an attempt to explain the kind of pietism I grew up with to people unfamiliar with it, and to do a gentle critique as well.
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- 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
- Religiosity: exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
- (pietistic) of or relating to Pietism; "the Pietistic movement"
- (pietistic) holier-than-thou: excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"
- Pietism (from the word piety) was a movement within Lutheranism, lasting from the late 17th century to the mid-18th century and later. ...
- An approach to Christianity, especially associated with German writers in the seventeenth century, which places an emphasis upon the personal appropriation of faith, and the need for holiness in Christian living. ...
- A Christian movement that emphasized personal and spiritual devotion over corporate worship and assent to doctrine.
- The seventeenth-century reaction within Lutheranism against what it considered the cold, abstract, argumentative nature of Lutheran orthodoxy. Pietism stressed "the religion of the heart," an experiential, warm, affectional, and often sentimental, view of the Faith. ...
- A seventeenth century movement begun in Germany associated with evangelism and renewal. They stressed personal and direct experience of the spirit, regeneration or rebirth, and individual experience in conversion.
