Look up: Quietism

1. quietism
   [n] - a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God
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2. quietism
   Religious attitude, displayed periodically in the history of Christianity, consisting of passive contemplation and meditation to achieve union with God. The founder of modern quietism was the...
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3. Quietism
   Qui'et·ism noun [ Confer French quiétisme .] 1. Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion...
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4. quietism
   noun a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God
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5. Quietism
   • (n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. • (n.) Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apa...
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6. Quietism
   a doctrine of Christian spirituality that, in general, holds that perfection consists in passivity (quiet) of the soul, in the suppression of human ... [7 related articles]
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7. quietism
   quietism, a heretical form of religious mysticism founded by Miguel de Molinos, a 17th-century Spanish priest. Molinism, or quietism, developed within the Roman Catholic Church in Spain and spread especially to France, where its most influential exponent was Madame Guyon. She preached her doctrines ...
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8. quietism
   Religious attitude, displayed periodically in the history of Christianity, consisting of passive contemplation and meditation to achieve union with God. The founder of modern quietism was the Spanish priest Molinos who published a Guida Spirituale/Spiritual Guide (1675)
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9. Quietism
   (Christian philosophy) `Quietism` is a Christian philosophy that swept through France, Italy and Spain during the 17th century, but it had much earlier origins. The mystics known as Quietists insist, with more or less emphasis, on intellectual stillness and interior passivity as essent...
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10. Quietism
    `Quietism` in philosophy is an approach to the subject that sees the role of philosophy as broadly therapeutic or remedial. Quietist philosophers believe that philosophy has no positive thesis to contribute, but rather that its value is in defusing confusions in the linguistic and conceptual framewo...
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