Socinianism
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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 Neilson, William Allan
Schleiermacher rejects natural religion in favour of the positive religions, while the school of A. Ritschl and W. Herrmann reject natural theology outright in favour of revelation—a striking external parallel to early Socinianism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
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
But what probably contributed most to the crumbling of the system was the rapid growth of Socinianism and Rationalism among the Lutherans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
This offshoot of German neology, issuing from the same parent stock with Socinianism, finds a congenial soil in a Unitarian community.
From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.
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