| 单词 | world flight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworld flight world flight n. Theology retreat from the everyday world; spec. asceticism. [After German Weltflucht (1671, common from the late 18th cent.; compare earlier Flucht der Welt (1517, rare)), probably itself after weltflüchtig (adjective), lit. ‘that has fled the world’ (1517), ultimately after the biblical passage in 2 Peter 1. 4 (Hellenistic Greek ἀποφυγόντες τῆς ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἐν ἐπιθυμίᾳ φθορᾶς, lit. ‘those who flee the corruption that is in the world through desire’).] ΚΠ 1860 J. Bleasdell tr. C. Ullmann Essence of Christianity xi. 67 If Heathenism begets its nature after a distracting worldly manner, and Judaism carries the danger in itself of a life eradicating world-flight, so Christianity gives the Spirit from God. 1910 T. C. Hall Hist. Ethics within Organized Christianity viii. ix. 551 The ethics of Pietism shared with monasticism and Puritanism an element of world-flight. 1995 D. W. Stott tr. U. H. J. Körtner End of World iii. 101 World denial may tend toward world flight and the formation of conventicles. < as lemmas |
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