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Definition of Familists

Familist
Familist Fam"i*list, n. [From Family.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.

Meaning of Familists from wikipedia

- The Familia Caritatis, also known as the Familists, was a mystical religious sect founded in the sixteenth century by Henry Nicholis, also known as Niclaes...
- "religion of the heart". The Familia Caritatis ("Family of Love", or the "Familists") were a religious sect that began in continental Europe in the 16th century...
- Familialism or familism is a philosophy that puts priority to family. The term familialism has been specifically used for advocating a welfare system wherein...
- speculation that it was created by members of a Christian sect called the Familists, which valued global viewpoints while stressing the importance of self-reflection...
- groups of the 16th and 17th centuries, such as Quakers, S****ers, and Familists, who believed that individuals could be directly guided by the Holy Spirit...
- and early Renaissance. In England, it grew interwoven with the Lollard-Familist traditions. The term 'Hermetic' derives from hermeticus, a Latin adjective...
- The presence of a belief in the existence of men before Adam among the Familists, a religious community in Friesland, was noted by John Rogers in 1578...
- support several sects of heretics, sometimes known as the Family of Love or Familists. It is now proven that many of their books, published without naming the...
- convert to the teaching of Nicholis (Henrik Niclaes), the founder of the Familists or ‘Family of Love.’ He wandered up and down in East Anglia spreading...
- wrote A Short Story of the rise, reign, and ruine of the Antinomians, Familists and Libertines, that Infected the Churches of New England which described...