antinomian
- a person who maintains that Christians are freed from the moral law by virtue of grace as set forth in the gospel.
Origin of antinomian
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Contemporary Examples of antinomian
Success in our politics often requires a voracious, antinomian egotism, a sense that rules are for others.
Historical Examples of antinomian
That is antinomian or hypernomian, and judges law as well as fact.
Essays, Second SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
Compare "antiseptic," "antinomian," "ultramontane," "semicircle."
"Stops"Paul Allardyce
This would be to push Paul's argument to an antinomian extreme.
The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the GalatiansG. G. Findlay
Besides being an Antinomian, he is a violent Jacobin and leveller, sir.
ShirleyCharlotte Bront
New Haven was settled in 1638, in the height of the Antinomian difficulties.
England in America, 1580-1652Lyon Gardiner Tyler
antinomian
- relating to the doctrine that by faith and the dispensation of grace a Christian is released from the obligation of adhering to any moral law
- a member of a Christian sect holding such a doctrine
Word Origin and History for antinomian
"one who maintains the moral law is not binding on Christians under the law of grace," 1640s, from Medieval Latin Antinomi, name given to a sect of this sort that arose in Germany in 1535, from Greek anti- "opposite, against" (see anti-) + nomos "rule, law" (see numismatics).