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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 Latitudinarian 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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Broad church is
latitudinarian churchmanship in the
Church of
England in
particular and
Anglicanism in general. The term is
often used for
secular political...
- importance. Good
examples of the
latitudinarian philosophy were
found among the
Cambridge Platonists. The
latitudinarian Anglicans of the
seventeenth century...
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Latitudinarianism, in at
least one area of
contemporary philosophy, is a
position concerning de
dicto and de re (propositional) attitudes. Latitudinarians...
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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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largely from
Thomas Aquinas, but he
adapted scholastic thought in a
latitudinarian manner. He
argued that
church organisation, like
political organisation...
- in the
early part of the 18th
century as the
equivalent of the term
Latitudinarian in that it was used to
refer to
values that
provided much
latitude in...
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early Church Fathers, Catholicism, Protestantism,
liberal theology, and
latitudinarian thought. Arguably, the most
influential of the
original articles has...
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limited indifferentism,
describing many
Protestant denominations as
latitudinarians who do not
claim any
particular fidelity to the
gospel and who maintain...
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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...
