quietism
1Quietism — • Doctrine which declares that man s highest perfection consists in a sort of psychical self annihilation and a consequent absorption of the soul into the Divine Essence even during the present life Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006.… …
2Quietism — Qui et*ism, n. [Cf. F. qui[ e]tisme.] 1. Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction. [1913 Webster] 2. (Eccl. Hist.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the …
3quietism — QUIETÍSM s.n. v. chietism. Trimis de LauraGellner, 13.09.2007. Sursa: DN …
4quietism — (n.) 1680s, from QUIET (Cf. quiet) (adj.) on model of mysticism; originally in reference to the mysticism of Miguel Molinos (1640 1697), Spanish priest in Rome, whose Guida spirituale was published 1675 and condemned by the Inquisition in 1685 …
5quietism — ► NOUN 1) (in the Christian faith) devotional contemplation and abandonment of the will as a form of religious mysticism. 2) calm acceptance of things as they are. DERIVATIVES quietist noun & adjective …
6quietism — [kwī′ə tiz΄əm] n. [It quietismo < L quietus: see QUIET & ISM] 1. a mysticism based on spiritual passivity; specif., a mysticism so minimizing or so completely rejecting human volition and effort as, often, to produce indifference to one s lot… …
7quietism — quietist, n., adj. quietistic, adj. /kwuy i tiz euhm/, n. 1. a form of religious mysticism taught by Molinos, a Spanish priest, in the latter part of the 17th century, requiring extinction of the will, withdrawal from worldly interests, and… …
8QUIETISM — 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… …
9quietism — This word (from the Latin quies, meaning rest ), in general, refers to any spirituality that claims that the idealhuman relationship with God should be one of complete passivity. The form of Quietism advocated by Miguel Molinos (1628 1696) was …
10Quietism (Christian philosophy) — Quietism is a Christian philosophy that swept through France, Italy and Spain during the 17th century, but it had much earlier origins. The mystics known as Quietists insist with more or less emphasis on intellectual stillness and interior… …
