| 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. |
| Rather than appealing to reason, pietism emphasized the strong emotional power of personal religious experience. |
| As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other. |
| Both built pietism into their systems, believing that society must be converted before the state could be conquered. |
| Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking. |
| His studies of the Quakers and of pietism described passive inwardness and feeling as the dominant characteristics of the German Enlightenment. |
