单词 | pietism |
释义 | pietismn. 1. Church History. Usually in form Pietism. a. A movement within the German Lutheran Church in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, founded on principles set out in the Pia Desideria (1675) of Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705), and concerned with practical devotion and ethics as opposed to dogma, and with the religious experiences of the individual as opposed to institutional authority; the principles and practices of the Pietists.Pietism had a wide influence, notably on the renewed Moravian church and on Wesleyan Methodism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Lutheranism > Lutheran groups and sects > [noun] > pietism pietism1697 1697 State Philadelphian 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. 1705 A. W. Boehm tr. A. H. Francke 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. 1716 C. Mather Let. 6 June in Harvard Stud. Philol. & Lit. (1897) 5 63 I believe ye American puritanism to be much of a piece with Frederician pietism. 1830 E. B. Pusey Hist. Enq. ii. viii. 225 These men..still continued incessantly to warn their congregations by name against Francke and Pietism and Perfectism. 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant i. 123 Say what you will of Pietism, no one can deny the real worth of the characters which it formed. 1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 709/2 Pietism was primarily a reaction against the barren Lutheran orthodoxy, and regarded religion mainly a thing of the heart. 1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind x. 247 Stahlian animism made medical sense, but it was also the product of evangelical Lutheran Pietism. b. Any similar movement within Protestantism; the tendency to emphasize individual devotion and ethical behaviour rather than the authority and corporate life of a church. ΚΠ 1810 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. §3901 Pietism, whether Moravianism, Quakerism, or Methodism. 1900 tr. A. Ritschl Christian Doctr. 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. 1934 R. N. Flew Idea of Perfection in Christian Theol. xvi. 275 The essential mark of Pietism is its quest for individual holiness. 1992 W. Kaminer I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional (1993) 161 Pietism, the individualistic, ‘intuitive religion of the heart’, was exalted by revivalist movements. 2. Devotion to religious feeling, or to strict religious practice; piety or pious sentiment, esp. of an affected or exaggerated kind. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > [noun] devotion?c1225 life-holiness?c1225 love-awe?c1225 reverencec1300 Godfrightiheada1325 pity1340 devoutness1377 truthc1384 love-dreada1400 fearc1400 pietya1500 godliness1528 devoteness1606 heavenly-mindedness1612 obedientialness1651 piousness1659 devotionalness1673 unction1692 theopathy1749 devoteeism1828 pietism1829 bhakti1832 devotionality1850 devotionalism1859 pi1897 society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] hypocrisy?c1225 pope-holya1425 saunteringc1440 pope-holiness1528 Pharisaism?1573 lip-holiness1591 lip-religion1597 hypocrism1605 lip-devotion1613 sanctimonya1618 lip-worship1656 sanctimoniousness1679 unction1692 sanctification1768 goodiness1808 pietism1829 lip-reverencec1843 Pecksniffery1848 mawwormism1850 goody-good1851 lip-homage1858 devil-dodging1866 goody-goodiness1868 goody-goodyism1868 piosity1883 unctuosity1884 1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm ii. 35 Genuine humility would shake the whole towering structure of this enthusiastic pietism. 1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism ii. 227 The attempt..to cover Charles' delinquencies by an appeal to his..diligent pietisms. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 558/1 A mystic pietism became the avowed force of his political, as of his private actions. 1999 Mod. China 25 358 From the very beginning of the Cultural Revolution, feudalism reinvented itself in such ‘socialist’ forms as brutal autocracy, fanatical pietism, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1697 |
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