Sentences with phrase «for pietists»

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.

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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.

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.

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

My goal is not adequately expressed by saying that I am to uphold an evangelical conservatism of generically Reformed or specifically Angelican or neo-Puritan or interdenominational pietist type, though I have been both applauded and booed on occasion for doing all these things, and I hope under God to continue to do them.

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.»

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

In the Life and Work movement of the non-Catholic churches in their search for social justice and international peace (which is now part of the WCC) and in the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Church, Christian Ecumenism has given up the church's traditional pietist and negativist approaches to modernity and has been involved in the attempt to redefine the forces and values of secular culture within the framework of Christian anthropology.

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.

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].

One was McIntyre's insistence on total abstinence from alcohol, an issue the Machen group considered a matter of Christian liberty, while the Holiness and pietist traditions had long emphasized the importance of a Christian life separated from the world» no alcohol, tobacco, dancing, cards, or theater, along with no short skirts or bobbed hair for women.

But it was also a curious alliance of a technocratic drive for government regulation, the supposed expression of «value - free science,» and the pietist religious impulse to save America — and the world — by state coercion.