How To Use quietist In A Sentence
- Words regarding the necessity to change the souls of human beings to effect real change in the world should not be interpreted to mean that black religious leaders were adopting a quietistic approach to civil rights.
- A quietist, he rejected involvement in politics and rejected Khomeini's theory of clerical rule.
- After 1848 plebeian intellectuals and activists in Ashton and other localities retreated into the quietist world of democratic dinners, lectures, and education.
- For a quietist like me, steering clear of all controversy, that will be a singular blessing.
- These four are political quietists and do not think that clergymen should enter politics directly.
- But by the time the reader's blood was up, he would come across some virile atheist's proclamation of the feeble, mattoid character of the religion in question, as illustrated by its quietist saints, the Quakers, the Tolstoyans, and non-resisters in general. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study
- The community was quietist, contemplative in spirit, and rather donnish, with Augustine as acknowledged leader providing answers to questions raised in the discussions.
- He is not an advocate of clerical activism, preferring the traditional quietist approach to politics.
- One suspects he would deplore any such retreat into quietistic bliss, and would instead admonish us with the title of another of his books: Think.
- Here situatedness determined ideas: moderate practice led to quietistic theory, while heightened class struggle produced theoretical radicalism.