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noun - 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
noun - exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
Stress on the emotional and personal aspects of religion.
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| pious sentiment, especially of an exaggerated or affected nature. |
| 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion |
| exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal |
| Stress on the emotional and personal aspects of religion. |
| Affected or exaggerated piety. |
| A reform movement in the German Lutheran Church during the 17th and 18th centuries, which strove to renew the devotional ideal in the Protestant religion. |
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Pietism () was an influential movement in Lutheranism that combined its emphasis on biblical doctrine with the Reformed emphasis on individual piety and living a vigorous Christian life. * Although the movement was active exclusively within Lutheranism, it had a tremendous impact on Protestantism worldwide, particularly in North America and Europe. Pietism originated in modern Germany in the late 17th century with the work of Philipp Spener, a Lutheran theologian whose emphasis on personal transformation through spiritual rebirth and renewal, individual devotion and piety laid the foundations for the movement. Although Spener did not directly advocate the quietistic, legalistic and semi-separatist practices of Pietism, they were more or less involved in the positions he assumed or the practices which he encouraged. * Pietism spread from Germany to Switzerland and the rest of German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltics (where it was heavily influential, leaving a permanent mark on t |