pietism
IPA: pˈitɪzʌm
noun
- (Christianity, often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout Christianity.
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Examples of "pietism" in Sentences
- The austerity of Lutheran pietism is ubiquitous.
- He also had a great influence on radical Pietism.
- It was a land of pietism and religious dissidence.
- As an adult, he would become a vehement opponent of Pietism.
- It's controversial and anachronistic to speak of Puritanism as Pietism.
- Rationalism and Pietism undermined the foundations of the old orthodoxy.
- She was strongly influenced by Pietism and she sought solace in religion.
- Pietism would have an effect in the development of Romanticism in Germany.
- Still, Pietism fizzed out by the middle of the 1700s, though not completely.
- There is strong heritage of pietism and evangelicalism present in the church.
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