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antinomianism
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antinomianism (‘against the law’) held that the moral law was not a rule of life for believers, the opposition of matter and spirit implying the indifference of bodily functions. It was an occupational hazard of
Lutheranism and
Calvinism alike, lurking in the doctrine of justification by faith alone and the righteousness implied by such faith. Propounded during the Reformation by the Lutheran John Agricola, it was taken up by some
anabaptists, and championed in England by Tobias Crisp (1600–43), flourishing in the 1650s. Its most egregious 18th-cent. representative was William Huntington, Sinner Saved (1745–1813), and its most telling refutation was Fletcher of Madeley's
Checks to Antinomianism (1771).
Clyde Binfield
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Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 12/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2001...has had to say about the subject of antinomianism, the belief that the godly are above...and Quakers, so did they focus on Antinomianism. Baxter provides a case study of this...
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Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism. By Tim Cooper. (Burlington, Vermont...which were "dedicated to destroying Antinomianism" (p. 2). Tim Cooper's book...than they actually were" (p. 60). Antinomianism was not, he asserts, the theological...
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Law and Gospel: Philip Melanchthon's Debate with John Agricola of Eisleben over Poenitentia
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...adversaries accused him of advocating antinomianism because of the doctrine of justification...account of the debate over the issue of antinomianism between Melanchthon and John Agricola...attempting to bridge the gap between antinomianism and semi-Pelagianism. The third...
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A marriage made online
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 1/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...that Gillespie calls "a thoroughgoing antinomianism." This is another one of Gillespie...authority in general." Cavanaugh calls antinomianism "a rallying call that says, 'This...rallying calls.'" Before there was antinomianism, there was Suck, which Cavanaugh...
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William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Art and Christianity; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...world through sections on Moravianism, Behmenism, antinomianism, enthusiasm, and so on; while the second chapter...diachronic perspective showing the complex traditions of antinomianism and enthusiasm that thread back to Civil War radical...
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Saga of Worcester's churches.(COMMENTARY)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 10/29/2009; 700+ words
; ...may help to remember the three "A"s - Arianism, Antinomianism and Arminianism. Those were fighting words 250 years...Arianism is an ancient heresy that denies the Trinity. Antinomianism is Calvinism carried to the extreme of asserting...
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Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...know? Roger Pooley opens his examination of Bunyan's antinomianism with these provocative questions. Pooley suggests that...distancing himself from the admittedly attractive moral antinomianism of the Ranters. However, the "absolute distinction between...
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Heroism in a politically correct age.
Magazine article from: National Review; 1/26/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...the channel of propagation and birth, signifying life. Antinomianism has had its ups and downs throughout history, and as with...they get involved with women. (I myself would argue that antinomianism reaches its apogee in the kind of feminism which professes...
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Breen, Louise A. Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630-1692.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...throughout the century. Breen's thesis is framed around antinomianism, which provided both a theological and an intellectual...capitalism. Breen suggests something quite different: Just as antinomianism provided a justification for individuals to challenge religious...
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Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...evidentialism not as a way of countering charges of irrationality, but rather as a check against antinomianism. The concern over antinomianism was that if total depravity included the reason or intellect, then human beings would be "naturally...
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antinomianism
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
antinomianism The doctrine held by a group of Christians taught by Paul that Christ...a continuing validity in regulating private and public existence. Antinomianism was not an intellectual justification of human frailty but a serious...
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Antinomianism
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Antinomianism, any theory that holds that moral law as such, or the Old Testament legal system specifically, is not binding upon Christians...
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Baxter, Richard (1615–1691)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...in favor of such badges as "a mere Christian." Baxter's pastoral focus had theological implications. He feared the antinomianism of the sects and the strict Calvinists on one hand and the superstition of "popery" on the other: his own theology could...
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Antinomian Controversy
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...and it could clearly lead to disastrous social consequences. They identified in Hutchinson's teachings a form of "Antinomianism," that is, a discarding of the moral law. She made matters worse by accusing all the clergy except Cotton of preaching...
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Law
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...adj . antinomia, antinomy a real or apparent contradiction in a statute. — antinomic, antinomian , adj . antinomianism the theological doctrine maintaining that Christians are freed from both moral and civil law by God ’ s gift of...
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