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; -ian

Example Sentences

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

The total number of Remonstrant and Socinian congregations is between thirty and forty. 

From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Cornwallis, Caroline Frances

The bearing of this interpretation of the Epistle on the Socinian doctrine generally is plain.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Edwards, Thomas Charles

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

The Socinian controversy relates to doctrines, which are the common faith of the Catholic Church; with the peculiarities of Calvinism it has no concern.

From On Calvinism by Hull, William