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Definition of Quietisms
1. quietism [n] - See also: quietism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quietisms
Literary usage of Quietisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Religious Opinions and Experience of Madame de La Mothe Guyon by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1849)
"... in which he endeavors to point out the principles * Relation de L'Origine, du
Progre"s, et de la Condemnation du quietisms en France, Livre Premiere. ..."
2. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1908)
"... regard for the will of God as law of all life and action, without lending the
least countenance to indolent quietisms or the vacuities of an idle piety. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"Those who belong to this school are known as 'quietisms' because their way of
attaining to the degree of enlightenment that leads to Nirvana consists not in ..."
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