pietist
Example Sentences
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He will then do like all pietists before him: propose simple solutions to complex problems, see all issues naively and out of context, and make absolute moral judgments where the need is for shrewd compromise.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the new-fangled pietists have abolished the office.
From Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Hausrath, Adolf
Spener decidedly maintained the duty of accepting the church symbols; but later pietists rejected them as man's work, and so containing errors.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
They were offended by literalism, bored by crudeness however much in earnest, and disgusted with the illogical assertions of pietists.
From Quaker Hill A Sociological Study by Wilson, Warren H. (Warren Hugh)
Other leading opponents of the pietists were Schelwig of Dantzig, Mayer of Wittenberg, and Fecht of Rostock.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
