Look up: Pietism

1. Pietism
   [n] - 17th and 18th-century movement in the German Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
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2. Pietism
   Religious movement within Lutheranism in the 17th century that emphasized spiritual and devotional faith rather than theology and dogma. It was founded by Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705), a...
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3. Pietism
   Pi'e·tism (pī'e*tĭz'm) noun [ Confer German pietismus , French piétisme .] 1. The principle or practice of the Pietists. 2. Strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion. « The Schöne Seele ...
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4. Pietism
   noun 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
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5. Pietism
   • (n.) Strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion. • (n.) The principle or practice of the Pietists.
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6. Pietism
   influential religious reform movement that began among German Lutherans in the 17th century. It emphasized personal faith against the main Lutheran ... [28 related articles]
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7. Pietism
   Pietism (pī'utizum) , a movement in the Lutheran Church, most influential between the latter part of the 17th cent. and the middle of the 18th. It was an effort to stir the church out of a settled attitude in which dogma and intellectual religion seemed to be supplanting the precepts of th...
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8. Pietism
   In general, an emphasis upon the individual appropriation of religious truth as over against its formal acceptance. As a movement, the term refers specifically to the reaction against the cold orthodoxies within German Protestantism of the late 17th and 18th centuries. Philip Spener (1635-1705) is r...
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9. Pietism
   Religious movement within Lutheranism in the 17th century that emphasized spiritual and devotional faith rather than theology and dogma. It was founded by Philipp Jakob Spener (1635–1705), a minister in Frankfurt, Germany, who emphasized devotional meetings for `groups of the Elect` rather than biblical learning; he wrote the <...
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10. Pietism
    (1635–1705) known as the "Father of Pietism". `Pietism` (from the word piety) was a movement within Lutheranism, lasting from the late 17th century to the mid-18th century and later. It proved to be very influential throughout Protestantism and Anabaptism, inspiring not only Anglica...
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