Devout vs Pietism - What's the difference?
devout | pietism |
Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.
* Bible, Acts x. 2
* Rogers
(archaic) Expressing devotion or piety.
Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest.
(obsolete) A devotee.
(obsolete) A devotional composition, or part of a composition; devotion.
(Christianity, often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout Christianity.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 739:
*:From its earliest days, Pietism was intimately bound up with education.
As nouns the difference between devout and pietism
is that devout is (obsolete) a devotee while pietism is (christianity|often capitalized) a movement in the lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout christianity.As a adjective devout
is devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.devout
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- a devout man, and one that feared God
- We must be constant and devout in the worship of God.
- devout''' sighs; '''devout''' eyes; a '''devout posture
- devout wishes for one's welfare