Word: pietisms
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Bismarck, Not Hitler. In the beginning, Reinold von Thadden's world and his church were comfortably unified. His family were old East Prussian nobility with a strong religious tradition. His great-randfather made the family estate a famous center of pietism-at 31, a hitherto skeptical young Otto von Bismarck prayed for the first time in 15 years during a visit there. Reinold fell into the family tradition, became a lay leader of the Pomeranian state church...
...picture of an ordered society in which men will no longer grasp for themselves, and trample on each other in their competition for food. . . ." But find abundance in production, distribution and obedience "to the bountiful Father." To Father Noel, the most dangerous corruption of the Christian faith lies in pietism, "the religion taught as Christianity by many 'Catholics,' Eastern, Roman and Anglican, by most Protestant Anglicans and Nonconformists, namely, the personal love of Jesus, the supreme importance of the domestic virtues, the concentration of the individual on the building up of his own soul and the permanence...