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What (who) is quietism - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Quietistic; Quietism (disambiguation); Quietism (philosophy approach)
quietism
¦ noun
1. (in the Christian faith) devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will as a form of religious mysticism.
2. calm acceptance of things, without resistance.
Derivatives
quietist noun & adjective
quietistic adjective
Origin
C17: from Ital. quietismo, based on L. quies, quiet- 'quiet'.
Quietism
·noun Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
II. Quietism ·noun 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.
Quietistic
·adj Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.
Wikipedia
Quietism
Quietism may refer to:
- Quietism (Christian philosophy), a 17th-century Christian philosophy condemned as heresy by the Roman Catholic Church
- Quietism (philosophy), the view that the proper role of philosophy is a broadly therapeutic or remedial one
- Political quietism, the religious rejection of politics
- Political quietism in Islam
Examples of use of quietism
1. Long before '/11 Blair had commendably abandoned the conservative realism in practice, feeble and amoral quietism of the Major Government in Bosnia and elsewhere.