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  • But what Klein pietistically sees as lowbrow proles venturing into a world to which they do not belong, I see as dedicated seekers of wisdom and truth who are driven - even at times when they are not to be found in their three piece Armanis - to pursue a story.

    Archive 2004-09-01 2004

  • But what Klein pietistically sees as lowbrow proles venturing into a world to which they do not belong, I see as dedicated seekers of wisdom and truth who are driven - even at times when they are not to be found in their three piece Armanis - to pursue a story.

    From On High 2004

  • Page 359, Volume 2 pietistically, or existentially β€” and no longer (whatever his protestations) defines God on the basis exclusively either of speculation or of external ecclesiastical or scriptural authority, it is not hard to see why, even in the very different atmosphere of the twentieth cen - tury, Schleiermacher continues to be called β€œthe father of modern theology,” at least in Western culture.

    IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800 LANGDON GILKEY 1968

  • Christians who were pietistically inclined, and care fully avoided judging their hearts.

    American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod 1894

  • But we cannot even begin to trust it, as long as we allow ourselves to believe pietistically that the Mind of God is set on punishment.

    Where No Fear Was Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • Logically then, Stauffenberg's moral leitmotiv should be traced back to this spirituality which, for Holderlin, was pietistically tinged.

    signandsight.com 2009

  • Logically then, Stauffenberg's moral leitmotiv should be traced back to this spirituality which, for Holderlin, was pietistically tinged.

    signandsight.com 2009

  • Logically then, Stauffenberg's moral leitmotiv should be traced back to this spirituality which, for Holderlin, was pietistically tinged.

    signandsight.com 2009

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