Sentences with phrase «with pietistic»

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.

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

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.

Two contemporary cinema artists — director Martin Scorsese and scriptwriter Paul Schrader — have let their pietistic upbringings interfere with their creativity.

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

For me, it was in the pietistic circles all this talk about miracles and demons, and what not, and needing to be sooo good, with your ego off the throne and Christ on top of it, none of which rang any bells with me, except produce anxiety.

The solution offered may seem nothing but a pietistic leap into supernaturalism: «There shall be no poor with thee... if only thou diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day» (Deut.

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

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.

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 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.

Tillich was their path from pietistic or heteronomous Christian doctrine to a revealing encounter with Greek and German philosophy, with exotic realms of cosmos, mythos, kairos and even eros — not to mention Angst, Kunst, Socialismus and das Unbedingt.

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.

Several Jewish religious organizations, most notably Chabad - Lubavitch, a pietistic Brooklyn - based sect with a highly developed and zealous outreach program, are currently challenging the American Jewish consensus on public religious invisibility.

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.