Sentences with phrase «from pietism»

The «social gospel», transmitted to American theology by Walter Rausenbusch earlier in this century, drew much from Enlightenment theology but little, if anything, from pietism.

Evangelicalism was, at its heart, a movement, influenced not only by a strong emphasis on the authority of Scripture but also by a lively, impassioned, and deeply personal spirituality — an eclectic, ecumenical mix of elements from Pietism, Presbyterianism, Puritanism, and Pentecostalism.

Not exact matches

(He even seems at one point to think pietism represented a confession separate from Lutheranism.)

For many, the path that led from the historic patterns of Protestant pietism to ecumenically engaged, socially involved and intellectually critical evangelicalism, and away from constrictive fundamentalism, forked at Rauschenbusch.

Thus the absence from the dominant image of the ministry in Protestantism of the permanent truths in the medieval image helped later Protestant rationalism and intellectualism to become stiff - necked and rigid and even arrogant; pietism to become detached and legalistic and self - righteous; emotional and anti-intellectual groups to become aesthetically barren and theologically illiterate; and some liturgical - minded groups to conclude that the calluses on their knees entitled them to wear plugs in their ears.

Trading legalism for pietism is really no improvement, we are no longer under the power of the law, and no longer slaves to sin, we still can and do fall short of perfection, in fact, Romans 7 gives us a pretty clear picture of the kind of abject failure that results from trying to live a pious life under our own power.

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.

I do love the thought of how you came to see Pietism — giving yourself the gospel, and then taking it away from yourself.

I have read the entire thing, once upon a time, and it cured me from many ills brought down to me from the inherited pietism, though some «real» Lutherans still think that Walther's own orgininal pietism still comes through.

Until a far greater percentage of churchgoing Americans and Canadians have become more articulate about the faith, it is absurd to imagine that North American church folk could stand back from their sociological moorings far enough to detach what Christians profess from the mish - mash of modernism, secularism, pietism, and free - enterprise democracy with which Christianity in our context is so fantastically interwoven.

But pietism found this experience only in the sect, withdrawn in part from the world with its distinctive marks of separation.

Robert C. Leslie identifies these salient points at which small groups played a vital role in church history: Christ and his disciples, the Apostolic church, Montanism, monasticism, the Waldenses, the Franciscans, the Friends of God, the Brethren of the Common Life, German pietism, the Anabaptists, the Society of Friends, the Wesleyan revival, the Great Awakening, the Iona Community, the Emmanuel Movement, and the Oxford Group Movement (from which came Alcoholics Anonymous).

In the early 1968's, the National Council of Churches radically revised its approach to the film industry, moving from a self - serving pietism to a support for artistically superior films that deal honestly with the human condition.

Through Western influence, mainly contacts with Pietism and Quakerism, Alexander I, who ruled from 1801 to 1825, experienced a conversion.