Sentence:  In actual fact, the project of redefining and purifying the Church's orthodox patrimony and the related re-establishment of an inward, <WSD>intimist</WSD> dimension of religion, which the head-on opposition in the early part of the century had unilaterally attributed to the Protestant enemy, was destined to gradually lose strength, with the setting of the sun on the generations of ecclesiastics who had themselves promoted the project and especially with the gradual disappearance of the Protestant menace. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Introspective; concerned with inner life and psychological experiences.