Definition of Rigorists. Meaning of Rigorists. Synonyms of Rigorists

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Definition of Rigorists

Rigorist
Rigorist Rig"or*ist, n. [Cf. F. rigoriste.] One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.

Meaning of Rigorists from wikipedia

- theologian John Sinnichius (1603–1666), was the foremost defender of the Rigorist doctrines. He held that it is not lawful to follow even a most probable...
- the Lapsi, excommunicated Felicissimus and five other Novatian bishops (Rigorists), and declared that the lapsi should be dealt with, not with indiscriminate...
- their positions in the church.: xiv  The North African Christians, (the rigorists who became known as Donatists), refused to accept them.: ix, x  Catholics...
- the poorer classes). Like third-century Novatianism, the Donatists were rigorists; the church must be a church of "saints" (not "sinners"), and sacraments...
- Clement of Alexandria, church father, Bishop of Alexandria ~220 Novatian, a rigorist and Antipope in 251 Dionysius, patriarch of Alexandria, pope of the Coptic...
- decisions by the penal code. This new doctrine gave rise to a party called Rigorists, who supported his theory. Von Feuerbach was the originator of the famous...
- learned presbyter of the Church at Rome, set up a schismatic church with a rigorist position against communing Christians who had apostatized during the ****cution...
- (often spoken of as a "schism" rather than a "heresy") Donatists were rigorists, holding that the church must be a church of saints, not sinners and that...
- own at Carthage. Cyprian now found himself wedged between laxists and rigorists, but the polarisation highlighted the firm but moderate position adopted...
- Landau at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edmund Landau: The Master Rigorist by Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights, page 192. Translation of his doctoral...