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ˈkwaɪ ɪˌtɪz əmqui·etism

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. quietismnoun

    a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God

Wiktionary

  1. quietismnoun

    A form of mysticism involving quiet contemplation.

  2. quietismnoun

    A state of passive quietness.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Quietismnoun

    What is called by the poets apathy or dispassion, by the scepticks indisturbance, by the Molinists quietism, by common men peace of conscience, seems all to mean but great tranquility of mind. William Temple

    Etymology: from quiet.

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  1. quietism

    Quietism is a philosophical or religious doctrine that promotes inner calm, detachment, and acceptance, advocating for a state of quietness and passivity. It emphasizes the direct experience of God through contemplation or meditation, often proposing that human will and effort are less important or even detrimental to spiritual enlightenment. The term is typically associated with certain Christian mystics, but can also refer to similar concepts in other faiths or philosophical systems.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Quietismnoun

    peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction

  2. Quietismnoun

    the system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes

  3. Etymology: [Cf. F. quitisme.]

Wikidata

  1. Quietism

    Quietism is the name given to a set of Christian beliefs that rose in popularity in through France, Italy, and Spain during the late 1670s and 1680s, were particularly associated with the writings of Miguel de Molinos, and which were condemned as heresy by Pope Innocent XI in the papal bull Coelestis Pastor of 1687. The “Quietist” heresy was seen to consist of wrongly elevating ‘contemplation’ over ‘meditation’, intellectual stillness over vocal prayer, and interior passivity over pious action in an account of mystical prayer, spiritual growth and union with God. Since the late seventeenth century, “Quietism” has functioned, as the shorthand for accounts which are perceived to fall foul of the same theological errors, and thus to be heretical. As such, the term has come to be applied to beliefs far outside its original context. The term quietism was not used until the 17th century, so some writers have dubbed the expression of such errors before this era as ‘pre-quietism’.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Quietism

    the name given to a mystical religious turn of mind which seeks to attain spiritual illumination and perfection by maintaining a purely passive and susceptive attitude to Divine communication and revelation, shutting out all consciousness of self and all sense of external things, and independently of the observance of the practical virtues. The high-priest of Quietism was the Spanish priest Molinos (q. v.), and his chief disciple in France was Madame de Guyon, who infected the mind of the saintly Fénélon. The appearance of it in France, and especially Fénélon's partiality to it, awoke the hostility of Bossuet, who roused the Church against it, as calculated to have an injurious effect on the interests of practical morality; indeed the hostility became so pronounced that Fénélon was forced to retract, to the gradual dying out of the fanaticism.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of quietism in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of quietism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of quietism in a Sentence

  1. Dorothy Thompson:

    Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.


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