quietism

plural quietisms

1. countableuncountableA form of mysticism involving quiet contemplation.
2. countableuncountableA state of passive quietness.
3. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe view that the proper role of philosophy is a broadly therapeutic or remedial one.
4. countableuncountableThe rejection of politics on religious grounds.

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of quietism (“form of mysticism”).

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

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

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   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.

   1919, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Picts-Sacraments, page 535

   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.

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