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Definition of Erastian

Erastian
Erastian E*ras"tian (?; 106), n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State. --Shipley.

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- title Explicatio gravissimae quaestionis. His name was later applied to Erastianism. He was born of poor parents on 7 September 1524, probably at Baden,...
- (1633–1645). His views were Presbyterian, but he became known in the 1640s as an Erastian, arguing for overall state control of religious matters. Born at Swainswick...
- supporting a reformed episcopacy, presbyterianism, congregationalism, and Erastianism. The membership of the ****embly was strongly weighted towards the Presbyterians...
- Independents Controversy to the Erastian Controversy. Besides John Lightfoot, the most zealous proponent of the Erastian position was Bulstrode Whitelocke...
- matters too. [...] it was the usurped authority of Constantinople, the Erastianism of the East that turned a personal quarrel into a great schism." The...
- attacking the concept of a state-dominated church (the position known as Erastianism), as well as Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove hirelings...
- Loup, ed. (1989). "The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: Anglicanism Erastian or Apostolic? An Anglican Consensus: Calvinist Episcopalians". Anglicanism...
- known as Erastians, a term for those who believed that the state should have significant power over the church. The entire ****embly was Erastian in the...
- 1570 by the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis. Thomas Erastus, founder of Erastianism Henry IV of France and Navarre, who famously retaliated by "excommunicating"...
- controversies, educational and religious. As a churchman he was a decided Erastian and strongly opposed to the High Church party. His 1833 Principles of Church...