Sentences with phrase «in pietistic»

In the pietistic Lutheran community of Berlevaag, Norway, the villagers have adopted a subtle variety of Gnosticism that leads them to renounce all worldly pleasures.

Most of us have been nurtured in the pietistic tradition and our understanding of Christian life is influenced by it.

For example, I carry assumptions about individualism and free enterprise that come from growing up on a farm, and biblical assumptions that came from growing up in a pietistic Anabaptist family and church.

There were two impulses in sectarianism:» (a) the impulse towards the perfection of individual life expressed in the pietistic sects and (b) the impulse towards the fulfillment of history expressed particularly in the Anabaptist and socially radical sects.

For me, it was in the pietistic circles all this talk about miracles and demons, and what not, and needing to be sooo good, with your ego off the throne and Christ on top of it, none of which rang any bells with me, except produce anxiety.

Not exact matches

But I believe in God's providence He has used that to show how truly special and unique the writings of the New Testament are — that they were inspired by Himself and not simply the writings of pious or pietistic men.

More important and more difficult to deal with than such differences in teaching on will and freedom, however, is a wall known only too well by those of us who have worked with Omega to help it make its Point: the wall of what Catholics are tempted pridefully to call pietistic faith and what Protestants are tempted cynically to call superstition.

Unquestionably, the pietism which both Luther and Calvin resisted, tended to reinforce an individualistic view of salvation in spite of the fact that pietistic mysticism usually stressed experience of the Holy Spirit in the agape - love which binds the community of the faithful together.

Because Bonhoeffer takes the church seriously as life in Christ, he looks critically at the pietistic movements designated as «the church within the church.

The pietistic, don't - get - involved - in - politics attitude found among evangelicals and fundamentalists elsewhere in the world can certainly be found among South African Christians.

I looked for some connection between contemporary group process and the Jewish - Christian tradition of small group confession and mutual pastoral care, especially as manifested in Jewish hasidic and Christian pietistic groups of the 18th century.3 But even at that point I began to recognize the potential self - deception of my own antinomian temptations.

As to the inconsistent political stance of Falwell in l980, Frances FitzGerald points out that Falwell represents a bridging of southern pietistic withdrawal from society with the economic success story of the New South.

And for those theological students who first knew the faith only in authoritarian, biblicistic or pietistic forms, study of it by way of historical consciousness proves a liberating experience.

I doubt that Orthodox faith communities are any easier to abide in than Catholic or Protestant communities when it comes to the mundane experiences of life; but at least those of us with mystical tendencies would not be attacked for being «pietistic» as we so often are in most Protestant, even many Catholic, excesssively rationalistic and legalistic Latin / Western Churches.

All three authors seem to agree that the focus on the individual in the more pietistic tradition works better in contemporary America.

Anglicans who had pietistic views existed before this, such as the Puritans who were first given this name in the sixteenth century.

But whereas on the continent and in Britain Pietism and Evangelicalism spawned movements that were largely held within the saving forms of the dominant churches, in America where the church forms were already greatly weakened, Pietistic sentiments tended through revivalism to become so dominant that denominations were formed on this basis alone.

Inherent in both Pietistic and Rationalistic sentiment regarding religion was a basis for religious freedom and separation of Church and State in practice.

As noted above, when pietistic sentiments and revivalistic techniques swept to the crest of evangelicalism in America, the conversion of souls tended to crowd out other aspects of the minister's work.

Rather than blind its audience with pietistic, sermonizing overtones, the film devalues these crucial narrative elements and in its subduing, the film's narrative simply does not gel.