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pietism|ˈpaɪɪtɪz(ə)m|
[ad. Ger. (mod.L.) Pietismus, formed after pietist: see -ism.]
1. Ch. Hist. (Often with a capital initial.) Name for the movement (originated by Spener late in the 17th century) for the revival and advancement of piety in the Lutheran church (see next, 1); the principles or practices of the German Pietists.
1697State Philadelph. Soc. 11 The first Motion or Eruption of it may be said to have been in Germany, where it has spread it self..under the Name of pietism. 1705A. H. Franck's Pietas Hallensis Introd. 21 Dr. Spener..Wrote and Published a Book, long before the name of Pietism was brought into use... Among which.. he caused to appear again such Mystical and Spiritual Books of the best note. 1716C. Mather Let. 6 June in Harvard Stud. (1897) V. 63 I believe y⊇ American puritanism to be much of a piece with Frederician pietism. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant i. 123 Say what you will of Pietism, no one can deny the real worth of the characters which it formed.
b. Also in extended use, any similar movement within Protestantism.
1900tr. A. Ritschl's Christian Doctrine of Justification & Reconciliation i. 84 It is..an inversion of the Reformation point of view when Pietism makes the moral power of faith the object which God invests with the value which moral conduct would possess when carried out. 1934R. N. Flew Idea of Perfection in Christian Theol. xvi. 275 The essential mark of Pietism is its quest for individual holiness. 1958E. L. Mascall Recovery of Unity i. 9 The word ‘pietism’. By this I mean an attitude to Christianity..which, in contrast to the corporate, objective, liturgical and theocentric religion of the primitive Church, is individualistic, subjective, pietistic and Christocentric. 1967D. T. Kauffman Dict. Relig. Terms 354/1 Pietism, protestant religious current emphasizing personal devotions, Bible study, evangelism, and the like. 1967M. J. Heinecken in J. Macquarrie Dict. Christian Ethics 257/1 Pietism has been and continues to be a valid protest against sterile orthodoxism and false sacramentalism.
2. Devotion to religious feeling, or to strictness of religious practice; pious sentiment; often implying an affectation or exaggeration of piety.
1829I. Taylor Enthus. ii. (1867) 30 Genuine humility would shake the towering structure of this enthusiastic pietism. 1861Tulloch Eng. Purit. ii. 227 The attempt..to cover Charles' delinquencies by an appeal to his..diligent pietisms. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars vi. 272 The stimulators of an emotional pietism. |