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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pietism \Pi"e*tism\ (p[imac]"[-e]*t[i^]z'm), n. [Cf. G. pietismus, F. pi['e]tisme.] The principle or practice of the Pietists. Strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion. The Sch["o]ne Seele, that ideal of gentle pietism, in ``Wilhelm Meister.'' ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context Christianity often capitalized English) A movement in the Lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout Christianity.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pietism (, from the word piety ) was an influential movement within Lutheranism that combined 17th-century Lutheran principles with the Reformed emphasis on individual piety and living a vigorous Christian life. Although it was active exclusively within ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Pietism , 1690s, from German Pietismus , originally applied in derision to the movement to revive personal piety in the Lutheran Church, begun in Frankfurt c.1670 by Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705). See piety + -ism .
Usage examples of pietism.
Had Pietism, with all its extravagances, been fostered by the intellect of the pulpits and universities it would have accomplished the same work for Germany in the seventeenth that the Wesleys and Whitefield wrought in England in the eighteenth century.
Now this Pietism has some good features about it, but it acts in its own name.
Thus reasoned the enemies of Pietism, who claimed as heartily as any of their contemporaries that they were strict adherents of truth and warm supporters of spiritual life.
Church gradually came to look upon Pietism not as a handmaid, but as an adversary.
Both systems made purity of life essential, but Mysticism could not guard against mental disease, while Pietism enjoyed a long season of healthful life.
So great was the increase of attendance, both at the lectures and also at the meetings, that Francke was suspended and Pietism forbidden.
While a student at Wittenberg he applied himself to the study of Mysticism, and now claimed that its incorporation with Pietism was the only salvation of Christianity.
He believed Pietism the only means of uprooting the long-existing corruptions of education, society, and religion.
It is deplorable to see how Pietism now began to lose its first power and earnest spirit.
In the present century the church has had recourse to Pietism as its only relief from a devastating Rationalism.
Not the Pietism of Spener and Francke, we acknowledge, but the same general current belonging to both.
Rationalism in Germany, without Pietism as its forerunner, would have been fatal for centuries.
Baumgarten was the connecting link between the Pietism of Spener and the Rationalism of Semler.
No traces of the old Pietism of his harsh father were visible in the son.
Reared in the lap of the sternest Pietism, he found himself a student at Halle pursuing his theological curriculum.