Sentences with phrase «pietism found»

But pietism found this experience only in the sect, withdrawn in part from the world with its distinctive marks of separation.

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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.

One can see how this kind of thinking found its way through later Lutheran pietism to Søren Kierkegaard and then to its atheistic version in Jean - Paul Sartre's existentialism.