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Erastianism

noun
1.
The doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters.  Synonyms: Byzantinism, Caesaropapism.






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"Erastianism" Quotes from Famous Books



... being inadequately recognised and taught in the then condition of the English Church, was the primitive doctrine of the Eucharist. His other criticisms pointed to practical and moral matters; the spirit of Erastianism, the low standard of life and purpose and self-discipline in the clergy, the low tone of the current religious teaching. The Evangelical teaching seemed to him a system of unreal words. The opposite school was too self-complacent, too comfortable, too secure in its social and political ...
— The Oxford Movement - Twelve Years, 1833-1845 • R.W. Church



Words linked to "Erastianism" :   Byzantinism, theological doctrine



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