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socinians denied Christ's deity and existence before his birth as a man, holding, however, that his birth was miraculous and that he possessed divine qualities. Used, particularly in the 17th and 18th cents. as a term of abuse against any suspected of unorthodox views of the trinity, it in fact describes a stage of
unitarianism and underlines its international development, deriving from the Italians Lelio Sozzini (Socinus) and his nephew Fausto. The former (1525–62), developing protestant views
c.1546, and received by Melanchthon and Calvin, was challenged in Geneva about the Trinity, but settled undisturbed in Zurich. His nephew (1539–1604), who published a denial of Christ's deity in 1562, lived in Poland from 1579, where the minor (reformed) church encapsulated his views in the Racovian catechism (1605).
Clyde Binfield
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Socinianism and Arminianism: Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, and Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Martin Mulsow and Jan Rohls, eds. Socinianism and Arminianism: Antitrinitarians...a 2003 Munich symposium devoted to "Socinianism and Cultural Exchange." Divided into...demonstrate the international character of Socinianism and the variety of forms it took and...
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Martin Mulsow and Jan Rohls, eds. Socinianism and Arminianism: Antitrinitarians, Calvinists and Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Martin Mulsow and Jan Rohls, eds. Socinianism and Arminianism. Antitrinitarians...which were presented at the symposium Socinianism and Cultural Exchange which was organized...Authority in the Early Modern Era." Socinianism is the most important and most consequential...
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Socinianism and Arminianism; Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, and cultural exchange in seventeenth-century Europe.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 522 words
; 9004147152 Socinianism and Arminianism; Antitrinitarians, Calvinists, and cultural exchange...studies in intellectual history; v.134 BT30 From the July 2002 Socinianism and Cultural Exchange symposium, held in Munich, 11 papers highlight...
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John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 3/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...theology, primarily in relation to Socinianism. (Responsibility gets so far diffused...have been done - latitudinarism and Socinianism? Neither provides a new approach to...book takes us, latitudinarianism and Socinianism do little in this line. This much is...
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S. M. BAUGH AND THE MEANING OF FOREKNOWLEDGE: ANOTHER LOOK
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...that Arminianism comes to "logical fruition" in Socinianism; Socinianism is a "consciously more consistent Arminianism...Arminianism is an inconsistent and self-contradictory Socinianism,19 while the "neo-Socinianism" of open theism...
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Milton and Toleration.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Socinian church" (29). The place of Socinianism and the antitrinitarianism espoused...Cromwell. Writers in this volume treat Socinianism with deserved attention, as it stands...Dzelzainis continues the investigation of Socinianism, also touched on instructively by von...
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John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Albion; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to detail the evolution of Jebb the Cambridge don through Socinianism and support for the American Revolution and the tireless...the Thirty-Nine Articles. His trajectory brought him to Socinianism-denial of Christ's divinity--by the late 1760s, at...
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John Locke and Christianity: Contemporary Responses to The Reasonableness of Christianity
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 6/1/2001; ; 680 words
; ...Locke's work, varying from Anglican Calvinism through Socinianism (Unitarianism) to outspoken deism. Locke definitely had...insights into the Anglican Calvinism of John Edwards, the Socinianism of the Racovian Confession, Chillingworth's rational defense...
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Michael Lieb. Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Seventeenth-Century News; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Part Three, "The Heresies of Godhead," is occupied with Socinianism, the specifically seventeenth-century heresy and with...De Doctrina does have some affinity with beliefs held in Socinianism, there are "important aspects of the treatise [that...
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Anglican Approaches to Scripture: From the Reformation to the Present
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...commendable respect) and in spite of the latter's famous dictum: "Socinianism is as inevitable a deduction from Taylor's scheme as Deism or Atheism is from Socinianism." Greer accurately describes the Anglican period before the second...
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Socinianism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Socinianism , anti-Trinitarian religious movement...s leader and principal theologian. Socinianism represented an extreme attempt to reconcile...as the Racovian Catechism (1605). Socinianism is sometimes called Old Unitarianism...
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Faustus Socinus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Sozzini , 1539-1604, Italian religious reformer, founder of Socinianism . Socinus left the Roman Catholic Church when, influenced by the...sect of Polish Brethren and thereby founded the movement known as Socinianism.
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Sozzini, Lelio, and Fausto
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Sozzini, Lelio, and Fausto (source of Socinianism): see SOCINIANISM .
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Deism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, such as Unitarianism, anticlericalism, Erastianism, Arminianism, and Socinianism. Generally speaking, the early thinkers associated with deism were engaged in a broad revolt against authority. Among...
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Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...Chaldean, Syriac, and Arabic. Over the course of his life, Priestley's religious beliefs evolved from Calvinism to Socinianism (Unitarianism), but religion always remained of pivotal importance. His chief formal occupation was as a minister, and...
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