Sentences with phrase «of pietism»

The term «pastor» came into general use only during the eighteenth century under the influence of Pietism, especially in Lutheranism.

Philipp Jacob Spener (1635 - 1705), the apostle of Pietism, held that the aim of preaching should be to «awaken faith and [to] urge the fruits of faith,» and hence that the aim of ministerial training should be «not only to impart knowledge but to have truth penetrate the soul.»

But the contentiousness here is compounded by forms of pietism and communitarianism that are incredibly complex and pervasive.

In the course of time American cultural experience, coupled with the influence of pietism, revivalism, and rationalism, resulted in the principle of religious liberty, which enabled Americans of diverse confessional backgrounds to live together in relative peace.

Some were part of a swelling tide of Pietism.

The protests of the orthodox groups were in vain; in vain also was the revival of religious emotionalism in the various groups of Pietism upon the Continent.

Out of Pietism and refugee remnants which survived the near erasure of Protestantism in Bohemia and Moravia during the Thirty Years» War came the Moravians.

Niebuhr is right in saying that there is no solution of the problem of redemption in terms of the formulas of pietism.

If it does so, it will reverse the trend of Pietism, Revivalism, and other similar movements, but it will follow them in their indifference toward denominationalism (cf. World Council of Churches, Commission on Faith and Order, The Nature of the Church, 1952).

«19 «The nation needs regenerated people, and this is the business of «revivalism»; and it needs keepers of the Law of God, which is at the heart of a pietism that emphasizes ethical absolutes.»

The theory of the ministry in the churches of the Reformation was also precise; the minister was fundamentally the preacher of the Word, an idea which later, in the days of Pietism and Evangelicalism, was modified in the direction of the conception of the minister as evangelist.

Is it the American form of liberation theology, belatedly discovered by Latin American Catholics, Third World Protestants and others who had not previously been led beyond their distinctive forms of pietism by historicism and sociology?

This tradition, however, produced the reaction of Pietism with its alternative strategy of how to «complete the Reformation.»

Not exact matches

The name for such an internalization in modernity is pietism and the theological expression of that practice is called Protestant liberalism.

on the one hand characterized by rationalistic ideas of progress and on the other by a sentimental pietism.

Some would argue that Pietism merely assumed the orthodox doctrine of Scripture.

And perhaps most significantly we should notice that some would trace the emergence of early forms of biblical criticism to Pietism and its attack on the abstract doctrinal character of orthodoxy.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

Building on the emphasis on the individual in pietism, moving through Kant, and in this century appropriating existentialism, Lutheranism has too frequently tried to construct in the private experience of justification an area for faith that can not be touched by the challenges of modernity.

But evangelicals give time and attention to these dimensions of faith, many of which have been lost in much of the church as piety was redefined as pietism and rejected.

Balmer's attempt at originality has to do with the influence of Continental (Reformed, Lutheran, Dutch, German, etc.) «Pietism» on the evangelicalism that usually gets traced mainly to Puritanism.

Phrases like these dominate: English - speaking evangelicalism and continental Pietism each elaborated «themes associated» with those of the other, and spoke of them «at the same time»; there are «a few scattered references,» but the literature is sparse.

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.

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.

In our reaction against the decadent pietism of the recent past, we falsely prided ourselves on our willingness to accept life as it is, realistically, in all its ambiguity, not painting it in more glowing colors.

Just as the barnacle of legalism can grow onto the disciplines, so also can the barnacle of individualistic pietism.

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.

Among his writings are Theological Roots of Pentacostalism (Scarecrow 1984), Discovering an Evangelical Heritage (Harper & Row 1976), and (editor) Contemporary Perspectives on Pietism (Convent 1976).

While it was prominent in German pietism in the post-Reformation period, and was particularly important in the Calvinist Reformation (where Psalm texts dominated), the modern hymn book is heavily influenced by the 19th - century tradition of the English hymn.

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.

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

He represented the warm, personal religion of German Pietism, coupled with a strong orthodox Lutheranism which insisted on adherence to the historically formulated Lutheran doctrines.

And so it was that academic theology's most recent reflection on the Christian life has been so shy of offering guides for experience that it has left the field wide open to the pietism it intended to combat.

Pietism in Wurttemberg took a politically passive turn because it was largely tolerated by the state church, which was somewhat independent of the king and capable through the involvement of the aristocracy of incorporating new ideas about the nature of the polity.

Mary Fulbrook's comparative study of Puritanism and Pietism in England, Wurttemberg, and Prussia also contributes to the current reassessment of Weber's ideas.2 Asking why religious ideas favored absolutism in Prussia in contrast to a politically passive orientation in Wurttemberg and an anti-absolutist attitude in England, Fulbrook is led to examine the interaction between religious ideas and the social contexts in which they take shape.

Especially in its Barthian form, neo-orthodoxy was wary of «mysticism,» pietism, and experience - centered theologies of the nineteenth century.

Prussian Pietism, in contrast, developed in the context of a feudal aristocracy that gave it a relatively weak economic base.

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.

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.

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).

One might mention the Evangelical Covenant Church of America (a nonfundamentalist immigrant church rooted in pietism) or the Southern Baptists as illustrations.

This literature contains some stimulating intellectual responses as well as several ad hominem pieces which are more concerned with rhetorical flourish and pietisms than critical reflection.1 There are some who want to rid the church of process theology because it is too philosophical, hence unappreciative of things which are distinctively religious.

Their pietism, which I confused with Lutheranism, early made me restive, not least because of my precocious reading of Britannica articles on evolution and Gibbon's Decline and Fall (my father's library was short on comic books).

They render it susceptible to the seductions of secularism on the one hand, or push it into a sterile pietism or hollow formalism on the other.

It would have a close relationship to the pietism of the Protestant sects, to Wesley and Edwards; but it must be far more realistic in its understanding of the continuing limitations of the life of the Christian than former theologies have been.

At the same time Niebuhr said that the evangelical churches, coupling pietism and perfectionist illusions, are tempted to disregard the moral ambiguity in the life of the redeemed.

On the other hand, he said that the message of Billy Graham, despite its simple pietism and obscurantist framework of «The Bible says...,» has «preserved something of the biblical sense of a divine judgment and mercy before which all human strivings and ambitions are convicted of guilt and reduced to their proper proportions.

Serving God with the heart is important, as pietism reminds us; but serving God with the mind is the particular function of the intellectual life.

H. Berkof points out that German theologians had played a leading part in the concentration of forces of evangelicalism by a combination of confessional Lutheranism and pietism.