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How to use pietism in a sentence

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As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
I must be open about the fact that I am relying heavily here on motifs that loom large in my own tradition of Calvinist pietism.
Both built pietism into their systems, believing that society must be converted before the state could be conquered.
Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking.
Rather than appealing to reason, pietism emphasized the strong emotional power of personal religious experience.
His studies of the Quakers and of pietism described passive inwardness and feeling as the dominant characteristics of the German Enlightenment.
During the half-century after J. S. Bach's death in 1750, musical standards in Lutheranism declined rapidly in the face of triumphant Enlightenment rationalism and pietism.
For example, I point to the pietistic practices of Bahais, Buddhists, and Mormons to encourage my Baptist Pietist students to take their pietism a little more seriously.
During this period he met and married Johanna von Puttkamer, the daughter of a conservative aristocratic family famed for its devout pietism.
The devotional theism of Vishishtadvaita, very influential in modern India, resembles the pietism and mysticism of the Western religions.
He was seminal in establishing Pure Land pietism as one of the central forms of Buddhism in Japan.
He studied at the University of Leipzig, and in 1711 attended the University of Halle, birthplace and stronghold of pietism.
Franciscan-Clarean contemplation, far from being a pious pietism, is a process of identification with the Lord.
This is true especially of the period since the rise of pietism which in reference back to the Reformation re-expounded the freedom of the Gospel and converted the idea into practice.
Wesley was influenced by their deep faith and spirituality rooted in pietism.
Having been affected by 19th-century pietism and revivalism, contemporary Holiness churches tend to stand closer, doctrinally speaking, to fundamentalism than to their Methodist antecedents.
The earlier exhortation is very insightful in the ways it dissects the pathologies of religious life, such as extreme pietism which is indifferent to the real world, or narcissistic obsession with liturgical detail.
He was also influenced by strands of Dutch pietism, continental rationalism, and British evangelicalism, along with a variety of pietistic movements.
I worried how pietism and pride can bend logic for its own purposes.
The rest is a mishmash of superstition, pietism, a sugary sentimentalism, a streak of Puritanism, and a bleak authoritarianism borrowed from Victorian England.
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But it was believed that they could be nullified at a stroke through pietism.
Popular culture ran on the sterile lines of pietism, Puritanism, and the strifes engendered between these and sacerdotalism.
This Pietism, nowhere else so paramount, except for a short period in Siena, constitutes the individuality of Umbria.
Those of us who have no form of Pietism feel cut off from making the attempt at all.
His Journal was read at home by John's step-mother, who inclined to Pietism.
We may be permitted to try to show the meaning of Pietism by a concrete example.
One cannot separate the influence of Pietism and that of the Opera.
Pietism and sentimentalism have supplanted in a large measure the ethical.
John was a compound of romanticism, Pietism, realism, and naturalism.
This and his stay in England gave an Anglican turn to his German Pietism.
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