QUIETISM. Although some of the important insights of Quietism—a movement distinguished from the generic sense of the word quietistic, which implies withdrawal or passivity with regard to politics or ethics—can be found in medieval...
Laozi Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way, translated and with commentary by Moss Roberts. University of California Press, 149 pages, $22 The connection between simple-life quietism and the political left has often been noted. Orwell, in his diatribes against the armchair...
As England's public upheavals of the mid-seventeenth century were turning ominous, the antinomian preacher Tobias Crisp set his own stamp upon tempestuous times. Christ Alone Exalted comprises a series of sermons that Crisp delivered, "in or neare London," in the early 1640s. The collection...
