At the time the pietists declared that Diderot had collaborated in De l'Esprit.
The academicians heard him out in perfect silence, leaving it to the few pietists among the audience to applaud; but as soon as the reports reached Ferney there began the vengeance of Voltaire.
It is noteworthy that the Pietists at Halle did not scruple to ally themselves for a time with Thomasius, he being opposed to the orthodox party.
Against the Pietistswere furiously arrayed the Lutherans of the old order, who even contrived in many places to suppress their schools.
Goethe himself passed through religious crises, and was at one period intimate with the Hermhuters, the pietists of that time.
The pietists believe it, and keep their lamps burning.
Leave the pietistsin peace, and don't try to sever the wheat from the chaff.
The pietists call it the 'awakening' before conversion.
Immanuel was something of a Voltaire in his jocose treatment of sacred things, and pietists like Joseph Karo inhibited the study of the Machberoth.
The struggle between the Pietists and the Orthodox subsided on the appearance of Wolff's demonstrative philosophy.
Spener had blended the emotions of the mind and heart, reason and faith, harmoniously; but the later Pietists cast off the former and blindly followed the latter.
It was charged against thePietists that they wrote but little.
Old terms, which had been used by the first Lutherans and Reformed in common, and by the Pietists with such effectiveness, were now abandoned for the modern ones of these innovators.
He was Director of the University of Halle, and defended the Pietists from the standpoint of statesmanship.
The presence of the man whom one had been accustomed to regard as a monument of worldly power had a special attraction for the poorer Pietists this evening.
He clung to the Pietists for the sake of the emotional atmosphere that enveloped it and from his sincere admiration of the Good Jew's personality rather than from faith.
The population of the little town was rapidly increasing by an influx of Pietists from neighbouring hamlets.
The Pietists were folding up their shawls, or eyeing the floor expectantly.
A white-haired man was picking a quarrel with two other Pietists who were trying to get in front of him.
The bulk of the Pietists present, including several people of questionable honesty in business matters, were honestly convulsed with a contagion of religious rapture.
The fanatical practices of the Pietists had inflamed his mind, and he really believed God had chosen him to humble the wanton.
I found him on the stairs in great distress, poor man, for it appears her Highness has tried to have some of these Pietists to preach in church before.
All these Churchmen fear that thePietists should get hold of the people--above all, in this case, of the Duchess and her tiresome court.
It was as though some fearful blight had fallen upon Eberhard Ludwig and his family, and the Pietists preached that the avenging hand of God was hovering over the sinner's court.
The Pietists differed from the orthodox Lutherans not in doctrine, but in insisting on the necessity of a change of heart and a pious life, instead of mere adherence to formal doctrine.
The greatest of the Pietists was August Hermann Francke, who is celebrated, not only as a theologian, but as a philanthropist and teacher.
The Pietists founded the university of Halle, and this remained the center of the movement until it had run its course.
The Lutheran church drove missions into the hands of the Pietists and Moravians--Wiclif's offspring--who nobly but ineffectually strove to do a work meant for the whole Christian community.
In 1815 Lutheran Germany also, which had cast out the Pietists and the Moravian brethren as the Church of England had rejected the Wesleyans, founded the principal representative of its evangelicalism at Basel.
Like the Pietists generally he paid little attention to dogmatic differences, allowing the Lutherans, Calvinists, and Moravians to have their own separate elders.
Francis Buddeus of Jena for a long time sought ineffectually to bring about a reconciliation between Löscher and the pietists of Halle.
Thomasius’ connexion with the pietists and his indifference to confessions secured for the theory a favourable reception in that party.
Other leading opponents of the pietists were Schelwig of Dantzig, Mayer of Wittenberg, and Fecht of Rostock.
The pietists then went so far as absolutely to deny that saving results could follow the preaching of an unconverted man.
The dissatisfaction caused among the Württemberg Pietists by the introduction of liturgical innovations led to several migrations in the beginning of the century.
The orthodox laid great stress upon clerical ordination and the grace of office; pietists on the person and his faith.
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.
Christian Thomasius= at first attached himself to the pietists as an opponent of the rigid adherence to the letter of the orthodox, but was repudiated by them as an indifferentist.
Germany, in view of the scanty means at the disposal of the pietists and the church party, made noble efforts.
Out of the contentions of pietists and orthodox there now rose a =third school=, in which Lutheran theology and learning were united with genuine piety and profound thinking, decided confessionalism with moderation and fairness.
The orthodox insisted above all on pure doctrine and the church confession; the pietists too regarded this as necessary, but not as the main thing.
In Germany the old orthodox conservatives and the more radical Pietists joined forces to fight Rationalism, and the union was of benefit to both groups.
At first the rabbis and the pietists opposed the spread of this sect in the old fashion; but in spite of this, for the reasons just mentioned, it maintained the upper hand.
With regard to the society of pietists described above I am persuaded that it had as little connection with the free-masons as with any other secret society.
The Society of Pietists had a similar end in view to that of the Order of Illuminati in Bavaria, and employed nearly the same means.
That was a recognition or a piece of flattery, as the pietists call it, and it fell on fertile soil.
He began to think that these humble pietists had a good deal of spiritual pride, and that their way to wisdom was an imaginary short-cut.
The pietists had a special prayer offered for John in the Bethlehem Church after they had seen him one Sunday morning in volunteer uniform.
He was also a pietist from spiritual pride, as all pietists are.
The pietists had a very wavering conception of the matter.
He also quoted Krummacher, Thomas a Kempis, and all thepietists on his side.
With it all they were a religious people, the Presbyterians and Pietists being predominant.
He was called back by Baumgarten to Halle, where he, for nearly forty years, combated the old Pietists victoriously, and died one of the most worthy heads of the great University.
And yet there was something in his nature, without his wishing it, which was favourable to the isolation and seclusion in which, in the following century, the religious life of the Pietists wore away.
The Pietists had to invent a phraseology of their own for their peculiar feelings, and these expressions soon degenerated into mannerism.
Soon also the morality of many came into ill repute, and when, after the decease of a devout lord, a society of ambitious Pietists were expelled, a feeling of malicious pleasure was generally excited.
Meanwhile the defects in the faith of the Pietistsbecame greater, the deterioration more striking.
The beneficial influence, also, exercised by the Pietists on the manners and morals of the people should not be under-rated, although much of this influence was undoubtedly lost by their proneness to separate from the multitude.
Thus it came to pass that the Pietists drew from them a multitude of revelations and prophecies.
That many of the Pietists might lose themselves in extravagancies and dangerous by-ways, is easily comprehensible.
Before the destruction, however, a pilgrimage of Pietists and believers in Margaret Peter had visited the scene of her death, and many had been the exclamations of admiration at her conduct.
Whilst at Rudolfingen, the holy maiden was brought in contact with the Pietists of Schaffhausen.
He was condemned by the Pietists because he had never experienced their sudden and spasmodic method of conversion.
There is no proof that the Brethren were already fond of the Lot; but there is plenty of proof that the Pietists were, and Zinzendorf had probably learned it from them.
These hostilities and rivalries are fomented by the Pietistsin a most unchristian way.
The sect of the Pietists which is the scourge of Prussia, is doing more harm here than even atheists could produce.
But the staunchest pietists were staggered, and these the most fervent of the followers of Sabbataï.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pietists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
