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. |