Sentences with phrase «pietists immanuel»

Pietists and «progressives» united to control the material and sexual choices of the rest of the American people, their drinking habits, and their recreational preferences.

But a theological inquiry that narrows the historical community, that excludes from the conversation such men as the early Fathers of the Church, or the medieval theologians, or the Reformers, or the sectarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or the Puritans, Pietists and social gospelers, or such movements as monasticism, scholasticism, Biblicism, et cetera impoverishes itself from the beginning.

Simply to list some of the groups compared with them — Franciscans, New England Puritans, Pietists, Methodists, high churchmen in Anglicanism, and Democrats — is enough to suggest that, in spite of some resemblances, the comparisons add nothing.

Grudgingly, the Roman churchmen must give way to their Western laity and translate their sacramental rituals into comprehensible terms as therapeutic devices, retaining just enough archaism to satisfy at once the romantic interest of women and the sophisticated interest of those historical pietists for whom the antique alone carries that lovely dark patina they call faith [The Triumph of the Therapeutic, pp. 253 - 254].

What became a breach, both wide and deep, between reason and faith can not be blamed simply on modernizing theologians and subjectivizing pietists, however.

But before 1750 Pietists and Moravians had inaugurated missions among non-Christians in a few scattered places — Greenland, the West Indies, Surinam, North America, and India.

On the Continent Pietists were training missionaries, and in 1815, from Pietist circles, an institution for preparing missionaries was founded in Basel which was to have a long and distinguished history.

The pietists stressed the idea of individual sanctification and rejected love of «worldly» things.

While Wesley was at college, he investigated these issues through avid reading of spiritual writers — early monastics, Roman Catholic mystics, Pietists, Puritans, and Anglican «holy living» divines.

But the pietists failed to recognize that the structures of society are unchristian.

The pietists of the seventeenth century became deeply concerned with social ethics, founding the first orphanages in Europe and starting the first missionary enterprises.

The subjectivity of the pietists became the doctrine of the «inner light» of the Quakers, which was an ecstatic movement in the time of George Fox in the seventeenth century.

The Puritans and the Continental Pietists were premillennial and believed in a national return to Palestine.

I am concerned with typology here and the ecstatic side of the Reformation, as manifest in the pietists and in such sects as the Diggers and Levellers belongs more nearly to the Franciscan type though it would require further analysis to support this.

They were the advance guard for six hundred German Pietists who were seeking a haven in America.

To a theologian, their position sometimes seems analogous to that of Christian pietists who argue that individual conversions will ultimately solve all problems of social evil.

The results echo faintly the stances taken by Puritans, Pietists and Wesleyans, who, in their own ways, were also in controversy with feudal societies and mystical speculations, and were simultaneously open to the dialogue between religion and science in an attempt to shape a new future.

These people, along with the pietists of later times, stressed personal faith and experience over against a sacramental and liturgical view of the church.

In his books relating to the church, Bonhoeffer dissociates himself from «the fanatics and enthusiasts,» a term equated with pietists and probably those of the Anabaptist tradition.

It may be that he was nearer the pietists in terms of costly grace than he realized.

In some instances he held positions similar to those of the fanatics (pietists or Anabaptists)-- for instance, his attitude toward the holding of high office in government.64

They were basically pietists, singing hymns, traditional lyrics and Christianized bajans (Hindu devotional songs) as they demonstrated.

It was also a continuation of the mystical tendencies of the German romantics who could trace their ancestry back through Goethe and Schelling to the Pietists and Jacob Boehme.

As did his friend in the Lutheran Church, he took a mediating position between two extreme parties — the Pietists and the strict Confessional orthodox.

Indeed, Prussian Pietists found their greatest support from the centralizing state itself, which was struggling to gain control over the feudal aristocracy; so Pietism gradually took on political attitudes that supported absolutism.

Wilken sees the Pietists as recovering concerns for the spiritual life, the affections, and the love of God from the «partial and one - sided» feature of the Lutheran Reformation's «brilliant vision.»

Yet evangelicals and pietists, too, early recognized, sometimes far more explicitly in the mission field than at home, that it was not enough to bring pictures of Jesus, even pictures of Jesus with native features, or words about Jesus, even words about Jesus in the native vernaculars, to the non-Christian world.

Among Protestants the Pietists particularly understood the importance of formation, though it was not a term they used much.

The Lutheran pietists were pleased with Luther's efforts to reform church teaching and subsequently wanted to see ministers and laypeople reform their actual lives toward a more biblical vision of piety.

In this task they look much like Lutheran pietists, or early Wesleyan holiness clubs, with their efforts to offer a «church within a church.»

Pietists, too, had their techniques for achieving and sustaining joy.

To make that point I must list the antecedents they cite: Marcionites, Montanists, Novatians, Donatists, Paulicians, Albigensians, Waldensians, Lollards, Hussites, Savonarolans, Anabaptists, Mennonites, Baptists, Pietists, Methodists, Brethren, Plymouth Brethren, Quakers, Disciples.

One or two of the names of Pietists whom he considers influential on evangelicalism may be familiar: Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg and Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, for example.

Guilty pietists were eager to accommodate, not least among them an aging white male leadership that had never recovered its confidence after the earthquakes of the sixties.

The early pietists did not engage in critical biblical study or directly challenge the literalism of the official teaching.

For him, as for Pietists generally, the focus was on the personal appropriation of the good news rather than on the supernatural status of the scriptures through which we have access to it.

Soon we see an eruption of spiritual autobiographies, mainly written by Pietists, Puritans, and Quakers.

At times Leading Congregational Change reads like an unwieldy meeting of personal - pietist and secular - organizational sensibilities.

And, again, the pietist and the enlightenment critiques of orthodoxy were often intermingled and mutually supporting.

This paradigm was anticipated in the Puritan transformation of the Calvinist tradition and the Pietist reaction against the efforts of post-Reformation orthodoxy to articulate systematically the insights of the Reformation.

It also gave rise to pietist and free church movements in Scandinavia and latter - day reformers in Denmark.

Both the global missionary work of the church and its service to the poor stem largely from the Pietist revival.

The Pietist movement affected both Lutheran and Calvinist churches, but those of us who are Methodists come more directly from it.

Even among German Reformed ministers «Pietist tendencies seem never to have been very pronounced; soon Continental Pietism as an identifiable movement within the colonies largely disappeared into the mainstream.»

But he underestimates both the language and the ethnic barriers, since so much of the Pietist influence came in Dutch and German packaging — languages and cultures that did not count for much among those of English descent.

Some evangelical prayer meetings look «quite a lot like the Pietist conventicals»; the literature on the two «resemble» and «echo» each other; one «comes to mind» when one deals with the other; the ideas of one «would not be alien» to the other; and both «insisted on» similar themes about the warmed heart and signs of regeneration.

But on the whole, revivalist and pietist techniques have played out.

The pietist convert, like the participant in the human potential movement, is concerned that others too find joy.

Through the exercise of its governance practices it will have decided to be a distinctively Pentecostal pietist theological school, for example, or a distinctively Roman Catholic school.

For such as me, Kierkegaard the humorist — or novelist, or aphorist, or ironist — possesses an unquestioned eminence, whereas Kierkegaard the philosopher — or theologian, or pietist, or polemicist — cuts a far more equivocal figure.