Wondering how to use Pietism in a sentence? Below are 6 example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as religiosity or devoutness.
Pietism in a sentence
Pietism meaning
A movement in the Lutheran church in the late 17th and 18th centuries, calling for practical and devout Christianity.
Synonyms of Pietism
Using Pietism
- The main meaning on this page is: A movement in the Lutheran church in the late 17th and 18th centuries, calling for practical and devout Christianity.
- Useful related words include: religious movement, religiosity, religionism, religiousism.
- In the example corpus, pietism often appears in combinations such as: pietism on, pietism and.
Context around Pietism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pietism
- In this selection, "pietism" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, protestant and kierkegaard stand out and add context to how "pietism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and protestant pietism on the and influenced by pietism. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pietism" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pietism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
During this spiritual crisis, John Wesley was directly influenced by Pietism. (11 words)
Pietism was sweeping German countries. citation Evangelicalism was waxing strong in England. (12 words)
Bismarck soon adopted his wife's pietism, and he remained a devout Pietist Lutheran for the rest of his life. (20 words)
Kierkegaard, pietism and holiness, p. 156. Hubert Dreyfus and Jane Rubin argue that Kierkegaard's interest, "in an increasingly nihilistic age, is in how we can recover the sense that our lives are meaningful". (34 words)
The stirrings of pietism on the Continent, and evangelicalism in Britain expanded enormously, leading the devout away from an emphasis on formality and ritual and toward an inner sensibility toward personal relationship to Christ. (34 words)
According to the Merton Thesis there was a positive correlation between the rise of Puritanism and Protestant Pietism on the one hand and early experimental science on the other. (29 words)
Example sentences (6)
According to the Merton Thesis there was a positive correlation between the rise of Puritanism and Protestant Pietism on the one hand and early experimental science on the other.
Bismarck soon adopted his wife's pietism, and he remained a devout Pietist Lutheran for the rest of his life.
During this spiritual crisis, John Wesley was directly influenced by Pietism.
Kierkegaard, pietism and holiness, p. 156. Hubert Dreyfus and Jane Rubin argue that Kierkegaard's interest, "in an increasingly nihilistic age, is in how we can recover the sense that our lives are meaningful".
Pietism was sweeping German countries. citation Evangelicalism was waxing strong in England.
The stirrings of pietism on the Continent, and evangelicalism in Britain expanded enormously, leading the devout away from an emphasis on formality and ritual and toward an inner sensibility toward personal relationship to Christ.
Common combinations with pietism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pietism on 2×
- pietism and 2×