Pietism

How To Use Pietism In A Sentence

• Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking.
• 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.
• Rationalism and pietism were two viewpoints that reduced religious controversy during the 1700's.
• 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.
• Piety, however, can counteract pietism, but it requires some participation on the part of the free will. Archive 2009-08-01
• 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
• Rather than appealing to reason, pietism emphasized the strong emotional power of personal religious experience.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.