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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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
Other Lutheran theologians, particularly those in the Pietist camp, were considerably more tolerant.
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 painter more than a pietist, and was called by his townsmen "the faultless painter."
From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke
She did not, like the self-conscious pietist, listen to it.
From Mariquita A Novel by John Ayscough
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 (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo Paul Thieme
