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Latitudinarian

noun

A person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct).

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"Latitudinarian" Quotes from Famous Books

... inner than the fugitive outer of things; he defends revealed religion on grounds of reason against both the atheist and the materialist; his candour and liberality exposed him to much misconstruction, and on that account was deemed a latitudinarian. "He stands high among our early philosophers for his style, which, if not exactly elegant and never splendid, ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... of universal depravity had been ignored,—as it sometimes is in these latitudinarian days,—or the notion of any available or worthy Christian culture, as distinct from a direct and clearly defined agency, both as to time and force, of the Spirit, had been entertained, he would have lost half of the elements by which his arguments gained logical sequence. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 • Various

... LUTHER LEE (published at the Wesleyan Methodist Book Room), is a brief treatise on the nature of Church Government, defending the right of visible church organization against prevailing latitudinarian and transcendental views on the one hand, and maintaining liberal principles of polity against the high claims of Episcopacy and the assumptions of the clergy on the other. The argument is conducted with candor and moderation, though not without spirit, and may be studied ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various

Words linked to "Latitudinarian" : undogmatical, faith, liberal, religious belief, progressive, undogmatic, religion, broad-minded, latitude, liberalist