The Pietistic revival, which in many respects was similar to the Puritan and Wesleyan movements in England, had its inception in Germany in the latter part of the 17th century and continued during the first half of the 18th century.
On the other hand, the Pietistic hymn is exemplified in its highest and noblest form in the writings of the so-called Wuerttemberg school of hymnists, the chief exponent of which was Philipp Friedrich Hiller.
In some respects it resembled the earlierPietistic movement in Germany and the Wesleyan revival in England, except that it was more conservative than either.
Brorson was a product of the Pietisticmovement emanating from Halle, in Germany.
It was Franck who began the long series of so-called "Jesus hymns," which reached their fullest development in the later Pietistic school of hymnists.
The hymns of Freylinghausen are the most worthy of all those produced by the Pietistic school.
Often they reveal a warmth and tenderness of feeling that would have merited a place for them in any Pietistic hymn-book.
Some of the Pietistic hymnists, notably Woltersdorf, were given to the use of inordinate language and even sensuous descriptions for the purpose of arousing intense emotion.
Freylinghausen's "Geistreiches Gesangbuch" became the standard hymn-book of the Pietistic movement.
Van Helmont, which in its day was most highly regarded, and which seems to have been, in some measure, a rearrangement of the views of Paracelsus into a mystic and pietistic system based upon mechanical principles.
In this society the priest, with his purely pietistic tastes and knowledge, became the type and source of culture.
Like the old Averroïsm, the newpietistic Unitarianism persisted in Italy and radiated thence afresh when it had flagged in other lands.
Through Tauler and others, Eckhart's pietisticdoctrine gave a lead to later Protestant evangelicalism; but the system as a whole can never have been held by any popular body.
That which is absurd and mechanical is surrounded with the halo of the sacramental; myths are proved by pious fancies and pietistic considerations with a spiritual sound; miracles, even the most foolish, are believed in and are performed.
Snoilsky was "awake," to use a pietistic expression, Bjoerck was dead.
People who are otherwise sincere, cringe before a well-established reputation, and John had heard a pietistic clergyman say that Shakespeare was a "pure" writer.
This philosophy at first met with much opposition from the pietistic party of Halle.
There were thus three chief phases within the church; the dogmatic at Leipsic, the critical at Göttingen, the pietisticeclecticism of Semler at Halle.
Francis and the center of pietistic art, where the passions of the people have ever been more quickly stirred by pathos than elsewhere in Italy.
Without rating Lorenzo's sacred poetry very high, either for religious fervor or aesthetic quality, it is yet surprising that the author of the Beoni and the Platonic sage of Careggi should have caught so much of the pietistic tone.
Meantime, Spinoza had reinforced the critical movement in France, [663] where decline of belief can be seen proceeding after as before the definite adoption of pietistic courses by the king, under the influence of Madame de Maintenon.
The age did not admit of a pietistic drama; and when there was a powerful pietistic public, it made an end of drama altogether.
The old evangelical or pietisticview of life was discredited among instructed people, and in this sense it was Christianity that had "decayed.
Yet the student of his pietisticstyle finds little here of novelty to notice.
To many travellers the name of Perugia suggests at once the painter who, more than any other, gave expression to devout emotions in consummate works of pietistic art.
Far more than their neighbours at Florence, the Sienese remained fettered by the technical methods and the pietistic formulae of the earliest religious painting.
It is not, perhaps, too much to say that they strike the keynote of Venetian devotion, at once real and devoid of pietistic rapture.
Already Perugino had opened a manufactory of pietistic pictures, and was employing many pupils on his works.
Some of these express the excessivePietistic contemplation of the Savior's blood and wounds; others are rhymed sermons rather than songs of praise.
This last estimate now is generally held to be unjust and, to some extent at least, inspired by jealousy of his quick rise to fame and by antagonism to his pietistic views.
With his Pietistic views Brorson naturally deplored such a misuse of the season.
But he was as an ocean of energy hurling himself against the impassive rock of my mother's pietistic obstinacy.
That he, that sweet and charitable follower of his Master, should be abused by her, should be dubbed blasphemer and have the cherished memory of his mother defiled by her pietistic utterances, was something that inflamed me horribly.
But not again would I stand by as I had stood by in the case of Falcone, and let her cruel, pietistic will be done.
Now for this half year, since Michaelis is dead, and this pietistic snake has wormed himself into our paradise, our peace has gone to the deuce; the snake crawls into every corner, and leaves the track of his slimy nature wherever he goes.
Neander, Tholuck, and Hengstenberg may be described as the founders and most powerful enunciators of the more recent =Pietistic Supernaturalism=.
In this he was quite earnest, although his personal animosity to all ecclesiastical and pietistic religion made him sometimes act harshly and unjustly.
In his tenth year he entered the Halle Institute under Francke, where the pietistic idea of the need of the ecclesiolæ in ecclesia took firm possession of his heart.
At the next synod in 1871, the orthodox pietistic party had evidently become stronger, but was still overborne by the liberal party, whose strength was in the lay element.
Pietistic Halle cast its skin, and along with Berlin took front rank among the promoters of the “Illumination.
A remarkable manifestation of the pietistic spirit of this age is seen in =The Praying Children in Silesia=, A.
The pietistic school, characterized by a biblical and practical tendency.
After completing his school course, his uncle and guardian, in order to put an end to his pietistic extravagances, sent him to study law at the orthodox University of Wittenberg.
Though he has by nature no more sympathy with the pietistic movement than Daudet, Kielland yet manages to get, psychologically, closer to his problem.
This was so like a paraphrase in Claude's language of Uncle Sim's pietistic ditty that Thor winced.
If we stop to think of the way in which the intelligence of pupils was judged up to only a few years ago, according to pedagogic methods that were a remnant of the pietistic schools, this will help us to form some idea.
Furthermore, it used to be held in the pietistic schools, and still is to some extent, that warmth had a demoralising influence, inasmuch as it tended to enervate both mind and body.
The epistles are Addisonian in purity of moral teaching and in grammatical structure, Johnsonian in verboseness, and interfused throughout with a pietistic priggishness all their own.
Little pietistic humbug that I was, I fancied myself among the elect: but I had a desperate assurance that both my parents were damned, and I loved them too well to find the conviction bearable.
The ideal of the Umbrian school was tenderness and sweetness, the outward and visible rapture of pietistic feeling; something of these qualities Raphael expressed in his Madonnas throughout his career.
When the theater-doors were opened, the crowd rushed in, still moved by pietisticand patriotic fervor; the seats were filled and the curtain rose.
They wear sandals instead of shoes, and have, therefore, the shuffling gait inseparably connected, in our minds, with pietistic pretension.
They were connected in his memory with atrocious tedium, pietistic insincerity, and humiliating contacts.
He smiled grimly at the thought of Auntie Hamps, of Clara, of the pietistic Albert!
