Pietism for the time died away; but rationalism developed in Wolf, who professed to prove all the orthodox doctrines, by a process of reasoning, from premisses level with the reason.
The records of the race do not show such another absorbing pietism as was seen in the monastic retreats of the Middle Ages, except among the Brahmans and Buddhists of India.
Pietism and sentimentalism have supplanted in a large measure the ethical.
Where in such pietism do we find the universality of obligation involved in the ethical law of benevolence or in the Christian law of love?
Dean Brown once said to the writer that there is a great deal of pietism that is utterly wanting in ethical quality, and that is true.
The pietism and unionism of Muhlenberg and his colaborers was the door through which, in the days of Wesley and Whitefield, revivalism had found an early, though limited, entrance into the Lutheran Church.
A pietism the very reverse was developed, which, aided by the beloved Channing, was disseminated through New England.
Jesuitism in the Catholic world and Pietism in the Protestant were the reaction against this recognition——a return into the abstract asceticism of the middle ages, not however in its purity, but mixed with some regard for worldly possessions.
Jesuitism would make machines of man, Pietism would dissolve him in the feeling of his sinfulness: either would destroy his individuality.
Pietism proceeded from the principle of Protestantism, as, in the place of the Catholic Pelagianism with its sanctification by works, it offered justication by faith alone.
By his influence three of his leading disciples, Franke, Anton, and Breithaupt were appointed professors in the University of Halle, which from that time became the leading centre of Pietism in Germany.
It is a noteworthy fact that Semler was one of the students most sincerely attached to Pietism at Halle.
Happily the inseparable malignity of his pietism was in large part superseded by a sunnier spirit; [1475] but his personality and his poetry helped to hold the balance of authority on the side of faith.
Ibn Khaldun seems to denounce in the name of faith his mixture of pietism and philosophy; and Makrisi speaks of his doctrines as working great harm to religion [1144] among the Moslems.
In a striking passage of the old tale Aucassin et Nicolette there is naïvely revealed the spontaneous revolt against pietism which underlay all these flings of irreverence.
Meanwhile pietism had more and more permeated the life of the people, and occasioned in many places violent popular tumults.
He had grown up under the influence of Halle pietism in the profession of a customary Christianity, which he called his private religion, which contributed to his life a basis of genuine personal piety.
The younger Halle school represents pietismin its period of decay.
This pietism was distinctly evangelical and Protestant.
Baptist= sympathies and tendencies often appeared in Germany apart from an anti-ecclesiastical pietism or mysticism.
The quickening of religious life bypietism bore fruit in new missionary activity.
Pietism led to a powerful revival of religious life among the people, which it sustained by zealous preaching and the publication of devotional works.
Quite apart from pietism Swedenborgianism made its appearance, claiming to have a new revelation.
Protestantism; while supernaturalism and pietism prevailing in the Lutheran and Reformed churches led to renewed attempts at union.
The mediating party between pietism and orthodoxy, represented by Bengel and Crusius in theology, is represented among hymn-writers by =J.
In all parts of Germany, amid the opposition of scientific theologians and the scorn of philosophers, pietism made way against rationalism, so that even men of culture regarded it as a reproach to be reckoned among the rationalists.
One cannot separate the influence of Pietism and that of the Opera.
Strong heroic words, freed from all the commentary and sentimental effusions with which German Pietism had loaded them.
Without seeking to press unduly on these circumstances, we may fairly assume that Torquato's character received a permanent impression from the fever of study and the premature pietism excited in him by the Jesuits in Naples.
That sounded too much as though the mere promotion of pietism was his aim; he revived the old classical word collegium.
They were the awakeners of a new intellectual life; not only the stimulators of an emotional pietism always prone to run into religious intoxication and extravagance.
It was a revival of the pietism of the Middle Ages, with an external reform of manners.
Muhlenberg's Pietism had helped to prepare the way for this Methodistic aberration.
Muhlenberg cultivated an intimate and fraternal intercourse with the Reformed and Episcopalian pastors, and inaugurated a period of pietism and unionism in New York.
And what of the pietism of the Halle emissaries in Pennsylvania?
Stoever's aversion to Pietism at first kept him from uniting with Muhlenberg.
If even the fame and the pietism of Newton could not save him from the charge of promoting atheism, much less could obscure men hope to set up any view of natural things which clashed with pulpit prejudice.
The king himself, so long morally discredited, could only discredit pietism by his adoption of it; the Jansenists and the Molinists [i.
What was really masterly in Chateaubriand was the style; and sentimental pietism had now the prestige of fine writing, so long the specialty of the other side.
Much of our pietism is to the effect that God is at the bestowal not merely of a sect, but of some section of a sect, and cannot be found through any other source.
Those of us who have no form of pietism feel cut off from making the attempt at all.
Pietism entered the lists against rationalism, and the Halle controversy of A.
The pietism of the eighteenth century, like the Reformation of the sixteenth, was followed by the appearance of all sorts of fanatics and extremists.
He did indeed firmly maintain the fundamental idea of pietism, ecclesiolæ in ecclesia, but in his mind it gained a wider significance than pietism had given it.
What pietism and Moravianism were for the Lutheran church of Germany, Methodism was, in a much greater measure, and with a more enduring influence, for the episcopal church of England.
After Pietism had won the favour of persons of distinction and the governing powers, it became a remunerative concern, a fashionable thing, an assistance to very worldly objects.
But, wherever the labours of Spener, as shepherd of souls, had found imitators, especially wherePietism had been recognised by the church of the State, the practical Christianity of the new teaching was perceptible.
It will shortly be shown that this was the rock on which Pietism struck.
The foundation of this remarkable softness was implanted in the soul by the great war and its political results, and Pietism had strikingly developed it.
Thus an opposition to Pietismarose on all sides, equally among the orthodox, the worldly, and the learned, and finally in the sound common sense of the people.
With enthusiasm and Pietismis united the impulse to work out by self-exertion the new acquisition.
Together with Pietism there began also in Germany a new style of social intercourse.
The families from whom our greatest scholars and poets have sprung, the parental houses of Goethe and Schiller, show the influence which the Pietism of the last generation exercised on their forefathers.
From Halle, Pietism spread to the other Universities.
But, in various places, pietism about this time assumed a form which disgusted all persons of sober judgment and ordinary discretion.
In an age of growing superstition their dreamy pietism was mistaken by many for sanctity of uncommon excellence; and the admiration bestowed on them, tempted others, in the beginning of the following century, to imitate their example.
It closes a chapter of high political and cultural interest in the history of the Dano-Norwegian monarchy, and opens a new one, imbued with an entirely different spirit, the characteristic features of which were Pietism and Germanism.
In 1746 the reign of Pietism came to an end on the death of Christian VI.
The pietism we find in the tract “To the German Nobility” is indeed overdone, and of a very peculiar character, yet the writer meant it as seriously as he did the blame he metes out to the abuses of his age.
Pietism had its inception during the latter part of the seventeenth century, and it extended through the first half of the eighteenth century.
But pietism has gradually yielded to the claim of culture.
