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

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Socinian

Socinian theology and the philosophy of Hartley had become distasteful.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

Its last form is a modification of the old Socinian view, formed under the pressure of evangelical religion on the one side and rationalist criticism on the other.

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

In 1817 he met Robert Haldane at Geneva, and continued his movement against the Socinian tendencies then prevalent in that city.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

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

W.S. is a retired tradesman, a thoughtful and rather reticent man; brought up a Socinian, and professedly such still.

From To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)