]> 2024-06-13T08:46:26+00:00 Pietism 0 0913 englanti 2014-08-11T07:22:17Z 2456880.8071412 Pietism <P align="justify"> Pietism (Latin <I>pietas</I>, 'piety') was a seventeenth century revivalist movement in central European Protestantism which emphasizes the importance of personal faith and the individual s own spiritual life. In its moderate form, it was characterized by a desire to remain within the church and its sacraments but at the same time it laid stress on the importance of the Pietists own community - an <I>ecclesiola in ecclesia</I> ( a small church withing the church , i.e. the true church within the church as a whole) - as a spiritual home and on the active participation of the faithful within it. One representative of moderate pietism was the slightly mystical faith of the Moravian Church ([[The Viklund revialist movement|Wiklundian revivalist]] movement) which emphasized evangelical joy and total spiritual devotion. So-called radical pietism, on the other hand, wished to reject the doctrine and order of the church and laid the main emphasis on the interior experience of religious faith. The pietism represented by Finnish revivalist movements, for example, still continues to be a vital current in the Protestant faith. [[Laestadianiam|Laestadianism]], Lars Levi [[Laestadius, L.L. (engl. ver.)|Laestadius]]. </P> Otsikko 102