pietism

Example Sentences

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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

The girl is obviously intended to personify what is false in Spanish pietism; the uncle signifies the sickness of the ruling classes.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Dean Brown once said to the writer that there is a great deal of pietism that is utterly wanting in ethical quality, and that is true.

From Religion and the War by Various