Sentence example with the word 'pietism'

pietism

Definition n. 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion

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He wrote a large work on the Christian doctrine of justification and atonement, Die Christliche Lehre von der Rechtfertigung and Versohnung, published during the years 1870-74, and in 1880-86 a history of pietism (Die Geschichte des Pietismus).   [Please select]

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There was much in their speech and in their conduct which would outrage the standards of a narrow pietism.   [Please select]

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AUGUSTINE, SAINT, on communion with God, 68; on pietism, 195; his conception of self, 372.   [Please select]

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It was a revival of the pietism of the Middle Ages, with an external reform of manners.   [Please select]

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They only aimed at a dreamy pietism,--at best their own individual salvation, rather than the salvation of others.   [Please select]

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This Anglican pietism, so well fed, so narrowly sheltered, which measured the universe with its foot-rule, seemed to her quasi-Catholic eye merely fatuous and hypocritical.   [Please select]

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But as every special study tends to rely upon its own conceptions, pietism, involving as it does a relation to God, is replaced by _rigorism_ and _intuitionism_.   [Please select]

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