Erastian
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Erastian
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"Even a superficial examination of the facts," says the Vatican White Book, "is sufficient to show Lord Strickland's Erastian mentality and policy."
From Time Magazine Archive
Being a Catholic himself, he knows what it means to be called an "Erastian."
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the Patriarch was not willing to be an Erastian head of the Church and thought the Church could get on without him.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
The old minister, to his mind, had been Erastian and lax, weak in doctrine and in discipline of the fold.
From Foes by Mary Johnston
The ground was occupied by legal fictions; by a godless Erastian church and a powerless Hanoverian king.
From What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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