Socinian

American  

[soh-sin-ee-uhn] / soʊˈsɪn i ən /

noun

1. a follower of Faustus and Laelius Socinus who rejected a number of traditional Christian doctrines, as the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and original sin, and who held that Christ was miraculously begotten and that salvation will be granted to those who adopt Christ's virtues.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Socinians or their doctrines.

Socinian British  

/ səʊˈsɪnɪən /

noun

1. a supporter of the beliefs of Faustus and Laelius Socinus, who rejected such traditional Christian doctrines as the divinity of Christ, the Trinity, and original sin, and held that those who follow Christ's virtues will be granted salvation

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Socinians or their beliefs

Other Word Forms

• Socinianism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Socinian

1635–45; < New Latin Sociniānus of, pertaining to Socinus; see -ian

Example Sentences

It was also here that the collection of Socinian writers, the Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum, 1626, was published.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey

When I went to Cracow I became a Socinian; in the Ukraine I joined the Greek church; afterward I became an orthodox Catholic; later, a Rosicrucian; then a Quaker.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r

This assertion, however, which was long before made by the Socinian Crellius, has been sufficiently refuted by Ode de Angelis, p.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

He is a Socinian, and must be answered in another place.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur

While an apprentice, a controversy with a Socinian led him to study Greek, that he might read the New Testament in the original.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.