Sentences with quietism
qui·et·ism
Q q - There can be no quietism, no reactionary traditionalism, no retreat from the world.
- Yet while Taoist teachings were unsystematic and emphasized quietism and inspiration, Buddhism offered a systematic philosophical framework and a tradition of textual scholarship.
- Critics of Keswick spirituality alleged that through its emphasis on the inner life, it taught a quietism that discouraged practical expressions of Christian living and a mysticism that was foreign to evangelical theology.
- Rather than challenging this quietism and posing a political alternative, the radical critique of the global theorists, in fact, reflects and reproduces this sense of incapacity.
- The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness.
- As a result, the next generation was to tend towards political quietism and, worst of all, a crass materialism.
- It may well be that social constructivism is not necessarily linked to political quietism, but one can hardly imagine it motivating political activism, especially on behalf of the rights of other people.
- He urged quietism, pacifism, and submission to civil government, exhorting his followers to live peaceably and unobtrusively in harmony with the community and the government.
- The period of political quietism on the left spanned three decades.
- However, the real meaning of Taoist wu-wei is not quietism at all, but rather, activity in harmony with the ever-changing, ever-unchanging Way of all life.
- There's quietism on the one hand and militancy on the other and much depends on the conditions that people find themselves in, in any one point in time.