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  • In sermons and writings he asserted the claims of personal holiness, and in 1670, while dean at Frankfort-on-the-Main, he began to hold little reunions called collegia pietatis (whence the name Pietist), in which devotional passages of the Scriptures were explained and pious conversation carried on by those present.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Well, those who disagree with me about the former affinity of the early settlers of Pennsylvania, Quaker and Pietist, and their now-sundered membership in a common culture, should address their comments to David Hackett Fischer.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography 2010

  • Well, those who disagree with me about the former affinity of the early settlers of Pennsylvania, Quaker and Pietist, and their now-sundered membership in a common culture, should address their comments to David Hackett Fischer.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography 2010

  • To the Amish, things happen not by accident, but as part of a larger divine plan for a person's life or the life of the community, said Stephen M. Scott, a research associate at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania who has studied the Amish for 40 years.

    For Amish, no grudge, blame in tragedy 2011

  • Kentucky has nearly 8,000 Amish and 31 settlements around the state, according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pa.

    4 Amish children die when buggy flips in Ky. creek 2011

  • To the Amish, things happen not by accident, but as part of a larger divine plan for a person's life or the life of the community, said Stephen M. Scott, a research associate at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania who has studied the Amish for 40 years.

    For Amish, no grudge, blame in tragedy 2011

  • Well, those who disagree with me about the former affinity of the early settlers of Pennsylvania, Quaker and Pietist, and their now-sundered membership in a common culture, should address their comments to David Hackett Fischer.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography 2010

  • Well, those who disagree with me about the former affinity of the early settlers of Pennsylvania, Quaker and Pietist, and their now-sundered membership in a common culture, should address their comments to David Hackett Fischer.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Thought on American Jewish Demography 2010

  • Jewish Life in Philadelphia, 1830 – 1940 (1983); Kramer, William M. “David Solis-Cohen of Portland: Patriot, Pietist, Litterateur and Lawyer.”

    Judith Solis-Cohen. 2009

  • Fast forward to Immanuel Kant, a Lutheran Pietist masquerading is a scientist and a man of reason, who made it his life's work to destroy philosophy from within.

    [philosophy] otherwise known as sophistry 2009

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