How To Use Pietism In A Sentence
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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
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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…
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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.
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As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
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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.
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Nineteenth-century pietism stressed individual encounters with the divine and denigrated churchly, corporate forms of devotion as Catholic paganizations of the gospel.
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His studies of the Quakers and of pietism described passive inwardness and feeling as the dominant characteristics of the German Enlightenment.
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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
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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.
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Both built pietism into their systems, believing that society must be converted before the state could be conquered.
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I've heard a similar comment, by a Lutheran pastor, concerning Western hymnography and how it changed during the age of rationalism and pietism, and when Latin was taken away from the Protestant churches much of the richness was lost. james1521: Our Neutered Consciences: Calvin and the Awareness of God's Judgment
Mere Orthodoxy
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As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
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Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking.
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I think what many people may react against is not piety but the "pietism.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Many of these new publications (including Hebrew tehinnot, supplemental prayers for men) developed out of and popularized a mystical pietism originating among the kabbalists of Safed; others originated among secret followers of Sabbetai Zevi (1626 – 1676), the failed mystical messiah.
Tkhines.
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I must be open about the fact that I am relying heavily here on motifs that loom large in my own tradition of Calvinist pietism.
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In contrast to the old creedal Calvinist churches that stressed the importance of obeying God's law as expressed in the church creed, the new ‘pietism’ was very different.
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Rather than appealing to reason, pietism emphasized the strong emotional power of personal religious experience.
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pietism," of what is foolishly called "goody-goody," has long been abroad; a grievously exaggerated dread; a mere parody of rightful jealousy for sincerity in religion.
Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
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Piety, however, can counteract pietism, but it requires some participation on the part of the free will.
Archive 2009-08-01
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In Halle, birthplace of George Frederick Handel and once a center of Lutheran pietism that preached the personal devotion to the Redeemer, only 10 percent of the inhabitants belong to a Christian denomination.
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Rationalism and pietism were two viewpoints that reduced religious controversy during the 1700's.
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During the half-century after J. S. Bach's death in 1750, musical standards in Lutheranism declined rapidly in the face of triumphant Enlightenment rationalism and pietism.
