different between pietism vs pietistic

English

Etymology

From piety +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p???t?z(?)m/

Noun

pietism (countable and uncountable, plural pietisms)

1. (Christianity, often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout Christianity.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 739:

     From its earliest days, Pietism was intimately bound up with education.

Derived terms

• church pietism
• radical pietism

Related terms

• pietist

Translations

Further reading

• Radical Pietism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

From French piétisme

Noun

pietism n (uncountable)

1. pietism

Declension

English

Etymology

From pietist +? -ic, probably after German pietistisch.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p????t?st?k/

Adjective

pietistic (comparative more pietistic, superlative most pietistic)

1. Pertaining to pietism, especially that associated with Luther and his followers; excessively pious.
   • 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, I:

     Quite apart from all the pietistic [transl. pietistischen] and mystical writers [...] we also encounter clear-sighted men averse to the fantastic who use this very inexplicability of the phenomena of dreams in their endeavours to support their religious belief in the existence and intervention of superhuman powers.

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