Sentences with word «pietistic»

Anything that could be labeled «worldly» was, and still is today, anathema in pietistic circles.

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

There is probably more pietistic fervor in civil ceremonies than at a typical Protestant Sunday morning service, and people are more likely to feel solidarity with fellow nationals of a different religion than with co-religionists of a different nationality.

Of course his attack was on a particular kind of Lutheran pietistic practice with which he was all too familiar.

I would see these involvements on the same level as the evangelical and pietistic commitment of missionaries such as William Carey.

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.

Woodhead is unapologetic: «Lutheran pietistic Christianity asks cosmological questions,» he says.

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.

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.

He alerted me to the possibility of an unambiguously confessional Lutheranism that was devout but not pietistic, and quite unreticent about baptismal regeneration and the real presence.

From its evolution out of fundamentalism, evangelicalism has been an individualistic, subjectivist, and pietistic project.

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.

As other denominations retreated from activism to a more pietistic inwardness, the UUs were already feeling disenchantment with encounter, sensitivity and human potential movements.

You can vote with your feet, emigrate, or you can retreat into the ever more pietistic ingrown «churches»....

Because they are so objective, the spiritual disciplines easily attract legalistic and pietistic barnacles that turn them into ugly monsters.

But it is no mere notion; this is my non-negotiable awareness of the One whom I worship, an awareness that has been relatively clear and steady since I experienced a full - scale pietistic conversion from religious formalism to the living Christ at age eighteen.

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.

This is the basis of Barth's attack upon nineteenth century religion and upon all self - centred, self - conscious pietistic religion.

He looks on the church, with the help of biblical images, as a community of the Holy Spirit in the world rather than as a withdrawn pietistic communal group.

This attitude is derived from the mistaken notion that evangelicalism is uniformly pietistic and otherworldly.

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.

The one notable exception is the Buchman movement, but its exaggerated pietistic character deprives it of any particular significance as far as the total life of the Protestant churches is concerned.

There is Eugen Rosenstock - Huessy, who concluded that the three major principalities and powers on the earth were the government, the university, and the church, and he refused employed from all three; Karl Barth, who finally left the ministry and only visited different churches occasionally because he found it had become too sentimentally pietistic; and Thomas Merton, who finally became a hermit and only rarely assembled with his brothers.

Finally, be careful to avoid a Lone - Ranger form of Christianity, influenced more by American individualism and pietistic evangelism than biblical Christianity.

Here the young pietistic pastor confronted unemployment, poverty, malnutrition, disease, and crime.

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

But I must also ask a utilitarian, pietistic question: how does God speak to me and to my communities (family, school, local church, denomination) through this text?

Twice therein occurs the statement, «Any certain extent of academic education shall never be a requirement for credentials...» (22) While there is always more to learn for any student of Scripture, however brilliant or trained, I am not at all prepared to say that such simple pietistic use of Scripture is defective; it is not so much wrong as limited.

There were other groups among the Jewish people who belong with far greater right than the Essenes to the antecedents of the movement led by Jesus; such, for example, were those who were waiting for «the Man» who was to come from heaven, or Galilean adherents of the Messianic faith, or pietistic religionists of one sort or another.

He departs from much pietistic tradition by making Creation and divine providence subservient to the evolutionary world process, rather than viewing God's activity as a sporadic set of interventions designed to inform man of some eternal truth or to keep him traveling the straight and narrow.

There is a second group of home schoolers, whom Stevens calls the «inclusives,» a broad category that covers left - wing and counterculture groups as well as Jews, Catholics, and mainstream Protestants who are not comfortable with the Christian home schoolers» pietistic style.

It was this social and critical dimension, understood as an intrinsic part of evangelical and pietistic commitment, that gave the early missionary movement its distinctive character.

Among the reissues of old standards and a largish crop of filio - pietistic potboilers are a number of...

For Evangelicals, debates about Christian cultural engagement largely occur within Richard Niebuhr's «Christ and culture» rubric, which calls into question most forms of institutional Christianity on the one hand and pietistic Christianity on the other hand.

A broader version of these theological distinctions reveals a confessional wing and a pietistic wing.

Within the evangelical world, the legacy of the Reformation unfolds in different ways depending on whether one identifies primarily with the confessional or the pietistic wing.

The other NCR, the Register, is sober, reliable, prone to the pietistic, and too often dull.