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pietistic

ADJECTIVE
  1. excessively or hypocritically pious
    a sickening sanctimonious smile
  2. of or relating to Pietism
    the Pietistic movement

How To Use pietistic In A Sentence

  • Logically then, Stauffenberg's moral leitmotiv should be traced back to this spirituality which, for Holderlin, was pietistically tinged. Signandsight.com
  • Attention to such matters has led to both sloppy filiopietistic triumphalism and much uninformed finger-pointing. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Those who felt the impact of the pietistically inclined awakenings were often critical of the forms and practices of the state church and the clergy.
  • But we cannot even begin to trust it, as long as we allow ourselves to believe pietistically that the Mind of God is set on punishment. Where No Fear Was
  • the Pietistic movement
  • But what Klein pietistically sees as lowbrow proles venturing into a world to which they do not belong, I see as dedicated seekers of wisdom and truth who are driven - even at times when they are not to be found in their three piece Armanis - to pursue a story. Archive 2004-09-01
  • Christians who were pietistically inclined, and care fully avoided judging their hearts. American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod
  • The frequent Tartuffian rolling of the eyes finally gives the face a pious or at least pietistic expression, but fold your hands in daily prayer for years and nobody would discover it from them. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
  • For those who pietistically claimed that God treated us even-handedly because, as they wanted to claim, God was neutral, we had many biblical texts to refer to which showed that God was in fact notoriously biased.
  • Page 359, Volume 2 pietistically, or existentially — and no longer (whatever his protestations) defines God on the basis exclusively either of speculation or of external ecclesiastical or scriptural authority, it is not hard to see why, even in the very different atmosphere of the twentieth cen - tury, Schleiermacher continues to be called “the father of modern theology,” at least in Western culture. IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800
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