Sentences with phrase «pietistic faith»

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.

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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.

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.