Sentences with word «pietist»

One of the ironies of pietist traditions may be not that we have stressed experience too much but that we have not stressed the deeper meaning of experience enough!
The man converted in pietist revivals and engrafted into the church was often changed in lasting ways.
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.
In this task they look much like Lutheran pietists, or early Wesleyan holiness clubs, with their efforts to offer a «church within a church.»
They were the advance guard for six hundred German Pietists who were seeking a haven in America.
To a theologian, their position sometimes seems analogous to that of Christian pietists who argue that individual conversions will ultimately solve all problems of social evil.
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.
Wesely was largely responsible for bringing it into practice, though it was thought up by pietist like Spener and Arndt.
The early pietists did not engage in critical biblical study or directly challenge the literalism of the official teaching.
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.
They hoped for a Lutheranism less pietist, biblicist, and theologically parochial.
Guilty pietists were eager to accommodate, not least among them an aging white male leadership that had never recovered its confidence after the earthquakes of the sixties.
Even among German Reformed ministers «Pietist tendencies seem never to have been very pronounced; soon Continental Pietism as an identifiable movement within the colonies largely disappeared into the mainstream.»
But on the whole, revivalist and pietist techniques have played out.
Significantly, Jesus was seen as a Western figure, and in the early religious art of the «younger churches» he often continued to be represented as he had been in the evangelical and pietist literature of the missionary movements in Europe, England and America.
Lindsell's analysis becomes shakier in interpreting the revivalistic Southern Baptist tradition and highly improbable in understanding, for example, the Evangelical Covenant Church, whose pietist and revivalist roots carried an implicit critique (occasionally raised to the status of an explicit theological alternative) of the rationalism and intellectualism of the scholastic and confessional traditions.
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.
He was trained in the famous Pietist university, Halle.
He was the great leader of the Moravians, who were German Lutherans and Bohemian Pietists.
The German Pietists also stressed the necessity of a conversion experience and, consequently, a strict moral life.
This was easy for them, for they were for the most part pietists of biblicistic and conversionist proclivities, but it confused me.
They were basically pietists, singing hymns, traditional lyrics and Christianized bajans (Hindu devotional songs) as they demonstrated.
In 1951 a University of Kiel professor named Theodor Wilhelm published the prayer in a book of his own under the pseudonym Friedrich Oetinger, which launched a German tradition of attributing it to the 18th - century Swabian Pietist F. C. Oetinger; Catholic - artifact versions of the prayer attributed it to St. Francis of Assisi; Hallmark cashed in on the prayer; and it was immortalized on thousands of plaques featuring Albrecht Dürer's praying hands.
Astute observers of the Christian pathos will recognize a similar strategy at work in the writings of the English Deists Matthew Tindal and John Locke, and in the German Pietists Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schleiermacher.
The Puritans and the Continental Pietists were premillennial and believed in a national return to Palestine.
Out of the Evangelical and Pietist awakenings came efforts to carry the Gospel to other lands.
What became a breach, both wide and deep, between reason and faith can not be blamed simply on modernizing theologians and subjectivizing pietists, however.
Deist views penetrated university circles in Germany, began a questioning, critical view of the Bible, and became influential in the erstwhile Pietist center, the University of Halle.
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].
Crusoe is Pilgrim's Progress dressed up as a sea adventure, and Defoe shares many of Bunyan's pietist instincts.
The Lutheran pietists were pleased with Luther's efforts to reform church teaching and subsequently wanted to see ministers and laypeople reform their actual lives toward a more biblical vision of piety.
Soon we see an eruption of spiritual autobiographies, mainly written by Pietists, Puritans, and Quakers.
An example of a theologian whose equally pessimistic anthropology engendered a more humane treatment of children is August Hermann Francke, an 18th - century German pietist.
At times Leading Congregational Change reads like an unwieldy meeting of personal - pietist and secular - organizational sensibilities.
And, again, the pietist and the enlightenment critiques of orthodoxy were often intermingled and mutually supporting.
In all of this the Wesleyan tradition is more naturally seen in the Pietist rather than in the orthodox line.
This paradigm was anticipated in the Puritan transformation of the Calvinist tradition and the Pietist reaction against the efforts of post-Reformation orthodoxy to articulate systematically the insights of the Reformation.
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