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pietism

[pahy-i-tiz-uhm] / ˈpaɪ ɪˌtɪz əm /


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He “decries Irish society’s conservatism, pietism and blinkered nationalism” in his writing, according to an essay from the Irish Emigration Museum curator Jessica Traynor.

From The Guardian Oct. 17, 2019

Father James is a modest, deeply humane man of the cloth: gruff, taciturn, utterly innocent of the cruelty, corruption and overweening pietism for which the Catholic church has been criticized in recent years.

From Washington Post

A few weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall objected to some of the pietism attending the 200th anniversary of the Constitution.

From Time Magazine Archive

Everything which even remotely smacked of mysticism and morality, of pietism and romanticism, or even of idealism, was suspected and sharply interdicted or bracketed with reservations which sounded actually prohibitive!

From Time Magazine Archive

Baptists and Quakers.—Baptist sympathies and tendencies often appeared in Germany apart from an anti-ecclesiastical pietism or mysticism.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.




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