Erastian

American  

[ih-ras-chuhn, -tee-uhn] / ɪˈræs tʃən, -ti ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Thomas Erastus or Erastianism.

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noun

1. an advocate of Erastianism.

Etymology

Origin of Erastian

First recorded in 1645–55; Erast(us) + -ian

Example Sentences

But the days when the Times, long since convinced of its Erastian errors, could sneer at Convocation as ‘a clerical debating society with a long name’ are altogether gone by.

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He hated ex animo all those aspects of Anglicanism which best recommend it to Erastian minds.

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The Erastian flourishes his Acts of Parliament in the face of the Anglican, who burrows like a cony in the rolls of Convocation.

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Next, though in this period, tyranny being in its retrograde motion, erastian supremacy was not so much contended for, and therefore not so much questioned as formerly, being held exploded with execration out of doors and out of doubt; yet the testimony was still continued against it, in the uninterrupted maintaining of the church's privileges and freedom of assemblies, against all encroachings of adversaries.

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The present position of the Church of England is gradually approximating to the Erastian theory that the business of the Establishment is to teach all sorts of doctrines, and to provide Christian ordinances by way of comfort for all sorts of people, to be used at their own option. 

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