pietism
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
At this period he was evidently inclined to an irregular attack on the only forms of Christianity familiar to him, asceticism and pietism.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
