Pietist
- a word derived from Pietism.
- a word derived from pietism.
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The Amish generally follow basic Christian beliefs and practices but are not homogeneous, according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
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
Bach made passing contact with Pietist figures and themes, though he remained aligned with the orthodox wing—not least because Pietists held that music had too prominent a role in church services.
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
Things then took a turn with him, and from a poor persecuted pietist he became a close client of Royalty, and almost the chief of court favorites in an age of favoritism.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
It subdues the flesh and the world, and calls down Heaven to bless the happy pietist.
To the pietist the divine seems all important, and the material no help, but rather a hindrance to the spiritual life.
From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)
