Pietism Definition

pīĭ-tĭzəm
noun
Stress on the emotional and personal aspects of religion.
American Heritage
The beliefs and practices of the Pietists.
Webster's New World
An exaggerated pious feeling or attitude.
Webster's New World
A reform movement in the German Lutheran Church during the 1600s and 1700s, which strove to renew the devotional ideal in the Protestant religion.
American Heritage
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Origin of Pietism

  • German Pietismus from Latin pietās piety piety

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From piety +"Ž -ism.

    From Wiktionary

Pietism Sentence Examples

  • Marguerite herself, however, was protected by her brother, and her personal inclinations seem to have been rather towards a mystical pietism than towards dogmatic Protestant sentiments.

  • Here he published his two chief works, Pia desideria (1675) and Allgemeine Gottesgelehrtheit (1680), and began that form of pastoral work which resulted in the movement called Pietism.

  • It was partly on Augustinian lines, partly on the lines of what the Germans call Pietism.

  • Two hundred years later, a movement called pietism, with its emphasis on holiness and prayer, emerged from a rather dry Lutheranism.

  • Its "sugary optimism, unctuous phraseology and pulpit logic" appealed, however, to the reviving pietism of the age succeeding the Revolution, and these qualities, as well as his eloquence as a preacher, early brought Ancillon into notice at court.

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