Sentences with phrase «pietistic groups»

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.

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«21 The perfectionist groups (pietistic - mystical) identified the «inner light» with the immanent Christ and exempted the «light» from judgment.

Dennis found that General Protestants and Reformed Protestants as groups viewed religious programs significantly less than did Pietistic Protestants, though this may reflect the influence of other common variables such as occupation, education, and income.

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.

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.