quietism
quietism noun: a form of mysticism involving quiet contemplation.
Noun (1)
quietism (countable and uncountable, plural quietisms)
- A form of mysticism involving quiet contemplation.
- A state of passive quietness.
- The view that the proper role of philosophy is a broadly therapeutic or remedial one.
- The rejection of politics on religious grounds.
Noun (2) capitalized: Quietism
Quietism (uncountable)
- Alternative form of quietism (“form of mysticism”).
- 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.1919, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Picts-Sacraments, page 535
- In von Hügel's estimation the real culprit that distorts “quiet” into Quietism, is any tendency to extreme dualism, particularly between body and soul.2009, Elaine A. Heath, Naked Faith: The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer, page 75
Forms of quietism
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Origin of quietism
From quiet + -ism.
Words formed from quietism
Questions about quietism
- What does quietism mean?
- Quietism means a form of mysticism involving quiet contemplation.
- What part of speech is quietism?
- Quietism is a noun.
- What is the plural of quietism?
- The plural of quietism is quietisms.
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