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pietism

pee ti zuhm

  • n  17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
  • n  exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal

  • Mediocre Pietism? The new breed of minister wants a "tough" Christianity; instead he finds in Methodism a mediocre pietism with an increasingly narrow range of appeal.
  • The devils that Smith wants to exorcise are the phony pietism and the trivial hypocrisy that many a Protestant pastor has to indulge in if he intends to climb the hierarchical .
  • In an attempt to dispose of pietism, Noel interprets Christianity as a social religion looking toward a "New World Order," although he admits that this interpretation is .

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