Pietist Definition

Pietist Sentence Examples

• A friend of his mother's, Susanne Katharina von Klettenberg, who belonged to pietist circles in Frankfort, turned the boy's thoughts to religious mysticism.

• He was educated at the gymnasium in Gotha, and afterwards at the universities of Erfurt, Kiel, where he came under the influence of the pietist Christian Kortholt (1633-1694), and Leipzig.

• He afterwards confessed that, though he had been a sincere, he was never a happy, Pietist.

• He was especially interested in the endeavours of the pietist Philipp Jakob Spener to effect a practical reform of the German church, although he was hardly himself a pietist.

• He grew up amidst pietistic surroundings, which powerfully influenced him his life through, though he never became a Pietist.