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What does pietism mean?

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Noun
  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.
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Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking.
As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
I must be open about the fact that I am relying heavily here on motifs that loom large in my own tradition of Calvinist pietism.
During this period he met and married Johanna von Puttkamer, the daughter of a conservative aristocratic family famed for its devout pietism.
He studied at the University of Leipzig, and in 1711 attended the University of Halle, birthplace and stronghold of pietism.
His studies of the Quakers and of pietism described passive inwardness and feeling as the dominant characteristics of the German Enlightenment.

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