How To Use Quietism In A Sentence
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As a result, the next generation was to tend towards political quietism and, worst of all, a crass materialism.
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But progress, not quietism, is the principle which governs humanity and it is favoured by events of most different nature.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In all the dispute on what is called quietism, there has been nothing good but the old tale revived of the honest woman who brought a torch to burn paradise, and a cruse of water to extinguish the fire of hell, that God should no longer be served either through hope or fear.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Critics of Keswick spirituality alleged that through its emphasis on the inner life, it taught a quietism that discouraged practical expressions of Christian living and a mysticism that was foreign to evangelical theology.
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Staying quiet in the face of political strife is the reigning philosophy in Najaf and is known as quietism, or taquia, in Arabic.
The Seattle Times
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Erano infatti: una fede in lui che lo mise in guardia dalle sottigliezze del quietismo e del gallicanesimo; una confidenza in Dio che gli rendeva familiare come palpito l'elevarsi continuato del suo spirito in Gesù, con continuate giaculatorie come dardi d'amore; una fortezza imperterrita, in circostanze angosciose, che gli fece dire col pugno serrato sul petto: color di porpora, color di sangue: e questo vi dica, che per la giustizia e per il buon diritto di Dio io sono disposto a sacrificare la mia vita; una carità fiammeggiante di padre e di pastore estesa alle forme molteplici e più varie della dedizione di un gran cuore di uomo insigne e di sacerdote venerabile.
Archive 2009-03-01
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There's quietism on the one hand and militancy on the other and much depends on the conditions that people find themselves in, in any one point in time.
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Faced with the classic choice of writing or living, he finds himself capable of neither, and ponders a retreat into literary quietism.
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There can be no quietism, no reactionary traditionalism, no retreat from the world.
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As a result, the next generation was to tend towards political quietism and, worst of all, a crass materialism.
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He urged quietism, pacifism, and submission to civil government, exhorting his followers to live peaceably and unobtrusively in harmony with the community and the government.
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These phases have been referred to as judicial quietism.
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However, the real meaning of Taoist wu-wei is not quietism at all, but rather, activity in harmony with the ever-changing, ever-unchanging Way of all life.
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Independent political inactivity now went hand in hand with religious quietism and piety.
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Our committing of ourselves to God is to be, not in indolent and passive quietism, but accompanied with active well-doings. faithful -- to His covenant promises.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The interaction between Buddhism and Taoism gave rise to the Ch'an school of contemplative quietism which developed into Japanese Zen.
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It may well be that social constructivism is not necessarily linked to political quietism, but one can hardly imagine it motivating political activism, especially on behalf of the rights of other people.
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He abjures both quietism which leaves the world to its fate and the ‘myth of progress’ and looks to a Jesus who is still followed but also at least partly hidden and ‘yet to be revealed’.
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The fundamental Quaker idea of "quietism," as it was called, or peaceful, silent contemplation as a spiritual form of worship and as a development of moral consciousness, was very widespread at the close of the
The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware
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Yet while Taoist teachings were unsystematic and emphasized quietism and inspiration, Buddhism offered a systematic philosophical framework and a tradition of textual scholarship.
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Conservatism and caution can become complacency and quietism, even though they don't start that way.
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Mr. Sistani, the true hero of Iraq's survival and incipient renaissance, is the standard-bearer of the traditional Shiite view of politics called "quietism," which rejects the clerical rule invented by the Ayatollah Khomenei in Iran.
Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy
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The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness.
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Whatever his technical limitations, however, Vrel's interiors are memorable intimist images of domestic quietism.
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Spencer produced the venerable Basil Pennington now deceased with the abbot, whose name I cannot recall, who invented "centering prayer" - a form of prayer that is pretty much associated with "quietism".
Archive 2006-11-05
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This is what I call the specially British form of [135] Quietism, or
Culture and Anarchy
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Those who believe that all affairs of state will shortly come to an end are, for obvious reasons, inclined to political quietism.
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After a while, you long for a little quietism.
The Times Literary Supplement
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There is something to be said for the ' quietism ' of the Buddhist approach to the question of the Divine .
Science, Idolatry, and Anthropomorphism
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At bottom there is a conflict here between activism and quietism.
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The Taoist theory of prolonging life by quietism and dispassionateness, by regulating one's breath, and using medicines is untenable.
Lunheng
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The period of political quietism on the left spanned three decades.
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Nietzsche began as a disciple of Schopenhauer, but later rejected his pessimism and quietism.
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Looked at more deeply, it seems to license quietism and indifference to things in the world, on the grounds that nothing that merely happens to people is really bad.
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Rather than challenging this quietism and posing a political alternative, the radical critique of the global theorists, in fact, reflects and reproduces this sense of incapacity.
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After a while, you long for a little quietism.
The Times Literary Supplement
