quietism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: quietism	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for quietism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quietism n a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quietism \Qui"et*ism\, n. [Cf. F. qui[82]tisme.] 1. Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction. 2. (Eccl. Hist.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes.