Sentence examples for pietistic from inspiring English sources

But the pietistic platitudes of the 19th century weren't much help in the ghastly realities of trench warfare, or in communities back home where a whole generation of young men was lost.Religion did, of course, surface in rather a dramatic way exactly 100 years ago, when soldiers on opposite sides called a Christmas truce, sang Nativity carols together and exchanged souvenirs.

Will Islam aspire to political power, or will more mystical or pietistic versions of the religion win out?

He habitually describes religious Jews as "pietistic", rather than devout or simply pious.

And he put his point in almost pietistic terms, declaring: "Our nations are strongest when we see that we are all God's children, all equal in His eyes and worthy of His love.

During the late 6th and 7th centuries, iconodule emperors had viewed themselves in a pietistic fashion, emphasizing their devotion and subservience to God.

In addition, the arts flourished without pietistic restraint.

Although the song "Hava nagila" ("Come, Let's Rejoice") traditionally has been attributed to Idelsohn as a setting of his own text to a tune that he adapted from a Hasidic (a pietistic Jewish movement) melody, more-recent scholarship has suggested that the words to the song actually were composed by Idelsohn's student, Moshe Nathanson.

In general, the admonitions are based on a belief in resurrection and the Last Judgment, and the tone of the work is decidedly pietistic and ascetic.

"The Hundred Chapters" also constitutes a polemic against Messalianism, the pietistic movement (condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431) that claimed that in consequence of primeval sin everyone has a demon within his soul that can be exorcised only by ceaseless prayers.

It played an important role in the movement of the false messiah Shabbetai Tzevi in the 17th century and in the popular Ḥasidic (mystical-pietistic) movement a century later.

Hasidism is a revivalist-pietistic movement that began in Poland in the first half of the 18th century.