pietism

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The difference was that he could not imagine finding that experience within Pietism.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 12, 2018

His faith was grounded in personal Pietism, a doctrine that ignored the political origins of injustice.

From Economist • Mar. 28, 2018

Renewed spiritual fervor and personal conviction gripped the German churches in a movement known as Pietism.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

He does offer some valuable hints, insisting, for example, on the importanceof the 17th- and 18th-century religious revival known as Pietism, which urged believers to devote themselves to improving life on earth.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2010

On the contrary, his Pietism embraced the relationship between God and science.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall