pietist

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He is that most tragic figure--an enforced pietist, a thwarted voluptuary.

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  1. One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.

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  • As a result, by the 1960s, three large bodies encompassed nearly all Lutherans: the liberal, more urban Lutheran Church in America the pietist, more rural American Lutheran Church; —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • And then the Social Gospel movement managed to combine political collectivism and pietist Christianity in the same package. —  A Arte da Fuga
  • Swedish Pentecostalism - this sets the Swedes apart from the Norwegian and Danish Christian Democratic parties which have their base in more traditional evangelical and pietist communities, but then Pentecostalism is relatively much stronger in Sweden than in Denmark and Norway (Pentecostals are still a tiny minority, though). —  Blogbot - forsiden
  • A short time afterwards young T. received a most kind reply from the baron, inviting him to come to Berlin; but, before this letter arrived, the young student had heard that Baron von K. was a pietist or mystic (as true believers are contemptuously called in Germany;) and as young was of a highly philosophical turn of mind, reasoning about every thing, questioning the truth of revelation, yea questioning most sceptically the existence of God, he much disliked the prospect of going to the old baron. —  A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, Third Part
  • He is that most tragic figure--an enforced pietist, a thwarted voluptuary. —  Europe After 8:15
 

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