Quietism

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Noun

Quietism (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of quietism (“form of mysticism”)
    • 1919, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Picts-Sacraments, page 535:
      In its consistently logical form Quietism makes communion between man and God an impossibility by annulling the distinction between them, ultimately reducing God to a vague and empty abstraction, and dehumanizing man.
    • 2009, Elaine A. Heath, Naked Faith: The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer, page 75:
      In von Hügel's estimation the real culprit that distorts “quiet” into Quietism, is any tendency to extreme dualism, particularly between body and soul.
    • 2013, Dr Federico Barbierato, The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop:
      The problem of Quietism or rather the problem of Quietism in its most corrupted forms and their immediate repercussions on a disciplinary, moral and sexual level led to the realization that the dangers that believers faced were as much inside the Church as outside.
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