Quietism

English

Noun

Quietism (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of quietism (“form of mysticism”)
   • 1919, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Picts-Sacraments, page 535:

     In its consistently logical form Quietism makes communion between man and God an impossibility by annulling the distinction between them, ultimately reducing God to a vague and empty abstraction, and dehumanizing man.

   • 2009, Elaine A. Heath, Naked Faith: The Mystical Theology of Phoebe Palmer, page 75:

     In von Hügel's estimation the real culprit that distorts “quiet” into Quietism, is any tendency to extreme dualism, particularly between body and soul.

   • 2013, Dr Federico Barbierato, The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop:

     The problem of Quietism or rather the problem of Quietism in its most corrupted forms and their immediate repercussions on a disciplinary, moral and sexual level led to the realization that the dangers that believers faced were as much inside the Church as outside.