8 sentences with 'piety'
Example sentences and phrases with the word piety and other words derived from it.
• « Augustus instituted strong moral laws penalising young (elite) men who tried to avoid marriage and celebrated the piety and loyalty of conservative married women. »
• « However, the piety of the empire sometimes undermined secular learning. Over time, the church became increasingly suspicious of learning that did not focus on the Bible and religious instruction or that did not have direct practical applications in craftsmanship or engineering. Thus, there was a marked decline in scholarship throughout the empire. »
• « In 500 CE Clovis and a few thousand of his elite warriors converted to Latin Christianity, less out of a sense of piety than for practical reasons: he planned to attack the Visigoths of Spain, Aryan Christians who ruled over the ancient Latin Christian Romans. »
• « Similarly, Sandro Botticelli's works focused on central themes of the Renaissance as a whole: the importance of patronage, the celebration of classical figures and ideas, the beauty of the human body and mind, and Christian piety. »
• « Thus Botticelli's painting completely rejected the asceticism associated with Christian piety during the Middle Ages, suggesting instead a kind of joyful sensuality. »
• « Not only did the papacy set a bad example, but attempts to reform the lifestyle and relative piety of priests generally failed; the papacy was simply too far removed from the everyday life of the priesthood throughout Europe, and since the elite ecclesiastics were all nobles, they generally continued to live like nobles. »
• « The 95 Protestant Theses were relatively moderate in tone. They attacked indulgences for leading to greed rather than piety, for leading the laity to distrust the Church, and for simply not working - they did not, Luther argued, absolve the sins of those who bought them. »
• « In general, Protestant governments and elites were more open to the idea that God could reveal himself in nature itself, not just in Scripture, and therefore sympathetic to the piety of scientific research. »