Pietists

His sermons, in which he emphasized the necessity of a lively faith and the sanctification of daily life, brought him many adherents among the more serious of his hearers; but recognizing the impossibility of leading the people at large to the desired degree of perfection, he conceived the idea of an ecclesiola in ecclesia, established in 1670 the so-called "Collegia pietatis" (whence the name Pietists), i.e. private assemblies in his own house for pious reading and mutual edification, and wrote "Pia desideria oder herzliches Verlangen nach gottgefälliger Besserung der wahren evangelischen Kirche" (1675).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

In 1693 Johann Jacob Zimmermann, a distinguished mathematician and astronomer and the founder of an order of mystics called Pietists, started for America, to await the coming of the millennium, which his calculations placed in the autumn of 1694.

Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Samuel Peter Orth 1897

-- Prior to _Zinzendorf_, _Spener_ (1635-1705), a man of devout feeling, had given rise to the "Pietists," as the promoters of a warmer type of religious experience than was approved by the current opinion were derisively named.

Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

Quakers and German Pietists, preferred to stay in the rear, coordinating and planning.

Jane Smiley: Jane's Bingo! Award for Most Informative Book of 2006 2008

Pietists, the Moravians, the Jews, and others, do not form a church.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The local authorities frowned on the movement, but the Pietists enjoyed protection of King Friedrich Wilhelm I (reign 1713-40) and thus persisted.

Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007

Other Pietists followed suit and rejected Wolff because his support of Leibnizian harmony, combined with his view of the world as a network of uniform substances, smelled of heresy.

Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007

As far as I know, the only Pietists left today are Methodists, few of whom are German and most of whom couldn't tell you what Pietism is.

The top-five-philosophers meme Mike L 2006

As far as I know, the only Pietists left today are Methodists, few of whom are German and most of whom couldn't tell you what Pietism is.

Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006

During the early 1720s the Pietists slowly gained favor with the King, which eventually led to Wolff's banishment.

Christian Wolff Hettche, Matt 2006