Pietism
noun
a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
Pietist
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a word derived from
Pietism.
pietist
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a word derived from
pietism.
Pietismnouna movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
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It is considered one of the most conservative of the car-driving plain Mennonite groups, according to Edsel Burdge, research associate at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
German migration brought Lutheran, German Reformed, and Pietist churches to the middle colonies, and the Scots-Irish took Presbyterianism wherever they went.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The Pietist movement, which arose in the late seventeenth century, aimed at reinvigorating an orthodox Lutheran establishment that, in its view, had become too rigid.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2016
The Amish population here grew 50 percent, from just over 20,000 in 2000 to about 31,000 in 2012, according to figures compiled by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 25, 2014
At its heart lies one supreme government: the Lutheran hymn-chorale, with its simple, memorable tunes for the congregation - another of the central pillars of Pietist doctrine.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Dr Ganiel said "pietist" evangelicals - those who had decided that the world of politics was simply too grubby for Christians to take part in - could be reinforced by Mrs Robinson's demise.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2010
No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument to the "old" diplomacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a mystic pietist; religion blending with poetry coloured his whole mind; revelation, nature, and art, were for him one and indivisible.
From Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson
In England, no doubt, as in every other European country, there were, as Mr. Vaughan observes, 'Scattered little groups of friends, who nourished a hidden devotion by the study of pietist and mystical writings....
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
She was so many-sided—a reformer, teacher, pietist, politician, actress—that a true estimate of her character is difficult.
From Women of Modern France by Hugo P. (Hugo Paul) Thieme
