It is a practice of Pietism in which the follower has to live a vigorous Christian life, and it comes within the framework of Lutheranism and has its origin in 17th century Germany.
In truth Sabatier's St Francis is an anachronism - a man at heart, a modern pietistic French Protestant of the most liberal type, with a veneer of 13th century Catholicism.
The proclamation of the dogma of the immaculate conception in 1854 was more than the decision of an old and vexed theological problem; it was an act of conformity to a pietistic type especially represented by the Jesuits.
pietistic הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד