Quietism

Quietism is a term with multiple meanings and definitions:

See the main article at Quietism (Christian Philosophy) . Quietism is a Christian Philosophy that swept through France , Italy and Spain during the 17th Century , but it had much earlier origins. The mystics known as ''Quietists'' insist with more or less emphasis on Intellectual stillness and interior passivity as essential conditions of perfection; and all have been officially proscribed as Heresy in very explicit terms by the Roman Catholic Church .

Quietism, according to Schopenhauer , is a doctrine of selflessness leading to deliverance from suffering.

Quietism is the term used to describe one of the phases which British Quakers went through, after their enthusiastic beginnings and as a result of the persecution on the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 and before the 19th century phase of evangelicalism.

Quietism can be used in a general sense to mean peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; '' Ataraxia ''; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.

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