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Socinianism

American  
[soh-si-nee-uhn-iz-uhm] / soʊˈsɪ ni ən ɪz əm /

noun

  1. a Christian belief system based on the teachings and doctrines attributed to Faustus and Laelius Sozzini.


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"They are sadly impregnated with the Genevese Socinianism."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various

The withdrawal of members to form other churches in the neighbourhood and the intrusion of Socinianism almost extinguished the Charleston church about 1746.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

The latter comprised many of the younger clergy who had been touched by the rationalistic tendencies of the century, and who were blamed for various heresies—notably Arminianism and Socinianism.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson

Numbers, however, of the Presbyterians, and some of the Baptists, adhered to Arianism, and thence drifted into Socinianism or rather simple Unitarianism.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey

Their characters were fictitious, the distresses imaginary; still I presume the St. Louis preacher would not object to "Socinianism Unmasked," the "Evils of Seduction," and the "Awful Death of Alderman Greedy."

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

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