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
The phrase was invented by Goethe, who used it in his “Confessions of a Beautiful Soul,” a fictional memoir in which a Pietist noblewoman describes her spiritual life.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
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 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 had come fresh from his apprenticeship to that old pietist Perugino, to assist in the decoration of the cathedral library.
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
Micah, when he turned back from a hopeless conflict, was a philosopher, and the young Levite when he went forward was a pietist.
From By the Christmas Fire by Samuel McChord Crothers
Rhetorician, philosopher and man of science, a story-teller wavering between Boccaccio and Hans Andersen, he is above all a stylist, a pietist and a humorist.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
