Pietist
- a word derived from Pietism.
- a word derived from pietism.
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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
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
He is that most tragic figure—an enforced pietist, a thwarted voluptuary.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
Ritschl had seen much of mysticism in pietist circles.
From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell
The pietist father of the painter made himself champion of the cause, and delivered a speech at a meeting of the Bible Society, wherein he proclaimed Luther the great witness of truth.
From Overbeck by Atkinson, J. Beavington
