latitudinarian

There is no clear distinction between the group and latitudinarians in general.

Waterland opposed the latitudinarians of his time.

Their approach began to converge with the Dutch Remonstrants, and the English latitudinarians.

And of course it demolished at a stroke the opponents of the Latitudinarians on either side of the spectrum.

In university circles, especially at Cambridge, they were characterized as neo-Platonists; within the Church, as Latitudinarians.

And certainly, some Latitudinarians at least found it unacceptably unethical that eternal punishment should be visited on those whose faults had necessarily been committed in time.

The Latitudinarians formed the basis of what would later become the Low church wing of the Church of England.

Stillingfleet was a leader within the Church of England of the "latitudinarians", the group of Anglicans thus defined pejoratively.

The distinction now usual between the Cambridge Platonists and other Latitudinarians is a conventional one, introduced by John Tulloch in the 19th century.

The major theologians of the circle (Chillingworth, Hales, Taylor) have regularly been claimed as precursors of the Latitudinarians, a term anachronistic before 1660.

B. His sympathies with the latitudinarians were early; he appeared as a writer in April 1768 in defence of the 'Confessional,' by Francis Blackburne.

On the contrary, it is noticeable that the latitudinarians, the libres penseurs, and the indifferent on the subject of religion, stand in the forefront of all our national movements.

The Anglican tradition of questioning the literal existence of the devil goes back at least to the Rev. Arthur Ashley Sykes (1737) and the Latitudinarians.

The Cambridge Platonists were latitudinarians in that they argued for moderation and dialogue between the factions of Puritans and High Churchmen in the Anglican church.

The modern latitudinarians speak, for instance, about authority in religion not only as if there were no reason in it, but as if there had never been any reason for it.

The Puritan movement had become particularly fractured in the course of the 1640s and 1650s, and with the decision of the Latitudinarians to conform in 1662, it became even further fractured.

Latitudinarians generally respected the Cambridge Platonists, and Glanvill was friendly with and much influenced by Henry More, a leader in that group where Glanvill was a follower.

A meeting with Clarke, Hoadley, John Craig and Gilbert Burnet the younger had left these leading latitudinarians unconvinced about Whiston's reliance on the Apostolical Constitutions.

Fowler was suspected of Pelagian tendencies, and his earliest book was a Free Discourse in defence of The Practices of Certain Moderate Divines called Latitudinarians (1670).

Nonconformists, Dissenters and Latitudinarians in Britain were often Arians or Unitarians, and the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 allowed nontrinitarian worship in Britain.

With the exception of a Preface to the Sermons of Dr Whichcote, one of the Cambridge Platonists or latitudinarians, published in 1698, Shaftesbury appears to have printed nothing himself till 1708.

It is true that the High Anglican cleric, Charles Leslie, wrote in 1694 that "the Presbyterians and Common-wealth-men,(with some Atheists and Latitudinarians.) were at the bottom of the whole Contrivance of the Revolution".

Newton and Boyle's mechanical philosophy was promoted by rationalist pamphleteers as a viable alternative to the pantheists and enthusiasts, and was accepted hesitantly by orthodox clergy as well as dissident preachers like the latitudinarians.

While practising in London he made the acquaintance of many of the noted men of the time, both physicians and theologians, and came much into contact with the Cambridge latitudinarians at the house of his kinsman, Thomas Firmin.

In 1749 John Jones, vicar of Alconbury, published his 'Free and Candid Disquisitions relating to the Church of England,' proposing modifications of the church services and ritual with a view to meeting difficulties of the latitudinarians.

Latitudinarian clergymen, of course, did not go so far.

Later, the latitudinarian position was called Broad church.

In politics he is an Independent, and in religion his beliefs are latitudinarian.

Sermons reflects Blair's position as a member of the moderate or latitudinarian party.

Other societies again seemed remarkably latitudinarian, scarcely appearing to notice that a problem existed.

Good examples of the latitudinarian philosophy were found among the Cambridge Platonists.

Paley's latitudinarian views are said to have debarred him from the highest positions in the Church.

The proposed value is alarmist, and the period for implementing it is latitudinarian.

That's why we call ourselves latitudinarian.

It also has meanings in the Protestant church referring to more liberal, latitudinarian sections of the church.

While always officially opposed, the latitudinarian philosophy was, nevertheless, dominant in the 18th century in England.

Thomas, less of a latitudinarian than his father, and opposed the agitation for a relaxation of the 39 Articles.

Thus, latitudinarian Anglicans were handed control of the Church of England.

Hooker worked from Thomas Aquinas, but he adapted scholastic thought in a latitudinarian manner.

He was a Latitudinarian thinker.

It is commonly the loose and latitudinarian Christians who pay quite indefensible compliments to Christianity.

The party was inspired by "kathedersocialisme", the progressive politics professed by latitudinarian preachers.

John Bunyan complained in those terms about Edward Fowler, a close latitudinarian follower.

People can travel as they wish, nobody is sent to Siberia, the governments are latitudinarian, and the press is pre-capitalist pluralistic.

This tolerance, becoming a hallmark of Latitudinarian views as they changed into low church attitudes, worked its way out in controversies of the eighteenth century.

The SDAP was mainly supported by atheists and latitudinarian protestants.

It is, nevertheless, unusual to see such blatant examples of this latitudinarian attitude outside WTO rounds.

To have been a latitudinarian clergyman is but little likely to advance him in his present profession, or to fit him for his present pursuits.

There are three basic types of indifferentism described by Catholic apologetics: absolute, restricted, and liberal or latitudinarian indifferentism.

Although Elizabeth "cannot be credited with a prophetic latitudinarian policy which foresaw the rich diversity of Anglicanism", her preferences made it possible.