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Latitudinarian
Latitudinarian Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an, a. [Cf. F.
latitudinaire.]
1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
2. Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of
belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely
from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian
divines; latitudinarian theology.
Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects.
--Allibone.
3. Lax in moral or religious principles.
Latitudinarian
Latitudinarian Lat`i*tu`di*na"ri*an, n.
1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by
precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges
freedom in thinking.
2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) A member of the Church of England, in
the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions
in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of
the church than generally prevailed.
They were called ``men of latitude;' and upon this,
men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name
of latitudinarians. --Bp. Burnet.
3. (Theol.) One who departs in opinion from the strict
principles of orthodoxy.
Meaning of Latitudinarians from wikipedia
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Latitudinarians, or
latitude men, were
initially a
group of 17th-century
English theologians –
clerics and academics – from the
University of Cambridge...
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position also came to be
distinguished increasingly from that of the
Latitudinarians, also
known as
those promoting a
broad church, who
sought to minimise...
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position concerning de
dicto and de re (propositional) attitudes.
Latitudinarians think that de re
attitudes are not a
category distinct from de dicto...
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Broad church is
latitudinarian churchmanship in the
Church of
England in
particular and
Anglicanism in general,
meaning that the
church permits a broad...
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early Church Fathers, Catholicism, Protestantism,
liberal theology, and
latitudinarian thought. Arguably, the most
influential of the
original articles has...
- importance. Good
examples of the
latitudinarian philosophy were
found among the
Cambridge Platonists. The
latitudinarian Anglicans of that
period built...
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hesitantly by
orthodox preachers as well as
dissident preachers like the
latitudinarians. The
clarity and
simplicity of
science was seen as a way to combat...
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Church of
Transylvania (founded 1568). Nonconformists,
Dissenters and
Latitudinarians in
Britain were
often Arians or Unitarians, and the
Doctrine of the...
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Parker Richard Hooker James I
Charles I
William Laud
Nonjuring schism Latitudinarian Anglo-Catholicism (Liberal)
Oxford Movement Anglican Communion Anglican...
- anecdote, ethnography, and
social criticism presented with a
genial latitudinarianism that gave
novelty to a
South Sea
idyll at once
erotically suggestive...
