ABCS OF RELIGION Q IS FOR QUIETISM

Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current) | April 28, 2007| | Copyright

Quietism was a 17th-century Christian movement that advocated striving for a passive experience of God.Quietists believed that one should eliminate desires and devotional acts in favor of merely being in God's presence. Even things such as desire for virtue, salvation and the love of Christ were to be put aside.

The Catholic Church condemns Quietism, which in the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia it describes as "a sort of psychical self- annihilation and a consequent absorption of the soul into the Divine Essence even during the present life."

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