With all his mystic and pietist Christianity, he kept an open eye for Nature.
He was also a pietistfrom spiritual pride, as all pietists are.
He began to race with her, and frequented the pietist meetings.
The previous Christmas she had fallen into a violent altercation with her brother regarding the pietist preachers.
That John was no longer a pietist was a piece of good fortune, otherwise he too would have been overwhelmed by the avalanche.
The housemaid was a pietist and allowed to be so, as much as she pleased.
At these conventicles the marvelous singer who had gained the homage of two continents sat with common workingmen on crude benches and joined with her sweet voice in singing the Pietist hymns.
The "Swedish nightingale" was herself a Pietist and found great delight in listening to the preaching of Rosenius and the singing of Ahnfelt.
The son of a cabinet maker of Halle, young Rambach attended the free school established by Francke and came under the direct influence of the great Pietist leader.
Soon afterwards John Wesley left for Halle, Germany, the seat of the Pietist movement, in order to become more familiar with the teachings of Luther and the evangelical methods of the Pietists.
The Pietist movement, however, gave birth to a great revival in hymnody in Germany, both in Lutheran and Reformed circles.
More than almost any gifted pietist of modern times he sets us wondering at the power of creed in certain cases to overgrow judgment and turn to naught the rarest faculties.
A few hours before his death a querying pietist got from him the answer: "God will pardon me; it is his business.
Gradually, however, he came more and more under the influence of the English deists; and he at length withdrew from the Pietist camp, attacking his former associates for the fanaticism into which their thought was degenerating.
After a tolerably free life as a student he turned Pietist at Strasburg, lectured on astrology and palmistry, preached, and got into trouble with the police.
The Paradoxes are the deliberate declaration of a pietistthat he believes the dogmas of revelation without rational comprehension.
From the popular and the eclectic pietist alike the generality of the Anglican clergy stood aloof; and among them, in turn, a rationalistic and anti-mythical habit of mind in a manner joined men who were divided in their beliefs.
He felt in writing it what a great gulf separated him from the Pietist German art, and on his return to England[175] he composed the Psalms and Esther.
Bach, Pietist at heart, by his public acts declared himself opposed to the Pietists, who were on certain marked occasions inimical to music.
The Pietist Controversies after the Founding of the Halle University= (§ 159, 3).
The Pietist Controversies after the Founding of the Halle University.
Röhr of Weimar found Hase of Jena as keen an opponent as anypietist or orthodox controversialist.
Halle now won the position which Wittenberg and Geneva had held during the Reformation period, and the Pietist controversy thus entered upon a second, more general, and more critical epoch of its history.
In the German Pietist controversy the Cocceians were with the Pietists in their biblical orthodoxy joined with confessional indifferentism, but with the orthodox in their liberality and breadth on matters of life and conduct.
This marked the beginning of the Pietist controversies.
The Württemberg Pietist colonists of South Russia originated among the peasants the widespread sect of the =Stundists= soon after the abolition of serfdom in 1863.
The =Pietist School=, more fruitful in practical than scientific theology, contributed to devotional literature many works that will never be forgotten.
These tendencies are represented by the Syncretist and Pietist controversies.
Here he had at first to suffer a sort of martyrdom as a rigidpietist swimming against the orthodox current.
A modern 'ape' might feel justified in calling him a pietist since he was converted!
He can vouch for it, as he was pastor at Güstrow before God called him--which means before he became a wandering Pietist preacher.
He continued by indicating that this abandoned woman was a witch, and finally let the Duchess understand that, having triumphantly resisted the temptress's sinful wiles, he had sought and found strength in the Pietist movement.
The Duchess seemed much annoyed, and said that in this case she would invite the Pietist to preach to her in the castle itself.
She caused the Pietist to visit her daily and instruct her in the stern belief.
The pietist aristocracy of the Phrygian sects and the speculative aristocracy of the Gnostics are equally stripped of their pretensions.
In 1723, in consequence of the petition from the pietist professors, Frederick I, deposed Wolff.
Moravians of Herrnhut, whose founder, Zinzendorf, himself sprang from the pietist movement.
Where Pietist clergy resided they were probably in better relations with other confessions, and were especially reverenced by the women, Jews, and poor of the city.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pietist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
