Pietism

How To Use Pietism In A Sentence

• If a teaching is called pietism but teaches no more than what God has always used to sanctify Christians, then it is not really pietism. Apprising Ministries
• This reasserted privileging of the personal rather than the institutional can be seen as evangelical pietism by the young Episcopalian. Matthew Yglesias » Before There Was Early Rawls…
• These doctrines become more tempting as forms of retreatism in postmodernity, in the face of increasing ethnic, religious, and sexual pluralism, functioning as a new reification of subjectivity, a new pietism of self.
• As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
• It was not the simple pietism of the shtetl that they remembered; it was the unrelenting poverty and the violent revolutionary struggle that they recalled in their poetry. Yudica.
• Nineteenth-century pietism stressed individual encounters with the divine and denigrated churchly, corporate forms of devotion as Catholic paganizations of the gospel.
• His studies of the Quakers and of pietism described passive inwardness and feeling as the dominant characteristics of the German Enlightenment.
• If any one had maintained against Voltaire that the aspirations after a future life, the longing for some token that the Deity watches over his creatures and is moved by a tender solicitude for them, and the other spiritual desires alleged to be instinctive in men, constitute as trustworthy and firm a guide to truth as the logical reason, we may be sure that he would have forgiven what he must have considered an enervating abnegation of intelligence, for the sake of the humane, if not very actively improving, course of life to which this kind of pietism is wont to lead. Voltaire
• The experiential pietism of the Great Awakening's revival preachers influenced prorevival Puritans to require testimony to an inner experience of personal encounter with God as a normative sign of conversion.
• Both built pietism into their systems, believing that society must be converted before the state could be conquered.