pietism

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He “decries Irish society’s conservatism, pietism and blinkered nationalism” in his writing, according to an essay from the Irish Emigration Museum curator Jessica Traynor.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2019

Father James is a modest, deeply humane man of the cloth: gruff, taciturn, utterly innocent of the cruelty, corruption and overweening pietism for which the Catholic church has been criticized in recent years.

From Washington Post

Luce was a religious man in the best sense of that word, without a trace of pietism or holier-than-thouism.

From Time Magazine Archive

A few weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall objected to some of the pietism attending the 200th anniversary of the Constitution.

From Time Magazine Archive

By his subjective pectoral theology he became the father of modern scientific pietism, but it incapacitated him from understanding the longing of the age for the restoration of a firm objective basis for the faith.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.