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Antinomianism
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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Antinomianism, any theory that holds that moral law as such, or the Old Testament legal system specifically, is not binding upon Christians. In America the Antinomian controversy was precipitated by
Anne Hutchinson, who was supported, in her protest against the legal system of the Massachusetts Puritans, by her brother‐in‐law John Wheelwright, Governor Vane, and other Bostonians. She was opposed by John Winthrop and by the people and clergy of the rural districts. The theological dispute became a political one, and, in 1637, when Winthrop was elected governor, Vane returned to England, and the Hutchinsons were banished to Rhode Island. Although the extreme emphasis upon the belief that Christians, saved by the sacrifice of Jesus and justified by their faith, have no obligation to regard moral law, often tends toward fanaticism, the New England Antinomians seem to compare favorably with their neighbors both in practical morality and in devotion.
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Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England.(Book Review)
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Law and Gospel: Philip Melanchthon's Debate with John Agricola of Eisleben over Poenitentia
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Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War.(Book Review)
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; ...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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The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638.( )(Book Review)
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Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford.(Review) (book reviews)
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; ...about the twin dangers to Calvinist orthodoxy: Arminianism and Antinomianism. Rutherford viewed Arminianism as shifting the means to salvation from God to mankind, and Antinomianism as a threat to the sanctity of God's covenant relationship...
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The Way of Salvation: The Role of Christian Obedience in Justification
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; ...their banner cry of sola fide? Can the nagging problem of antinomianism that has plagued the church in the wake of the Reformation...Important themes here include the old and new covenants, antinomianism, regeneration, justification, and comparisons of Paul...
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antinomianism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
antinomianism [Gr.,=against the law], the belief that Christians are not bound...and in the 17th cent. Anne Hutchinson was persecuted for supposed antinomianism. Rom. 6 is the usual refutation for antinomianism.
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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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Johann Agricola
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Islebius. He had an early association with Martin Luther and was active in the founding of Protestantism. In 1536 he espoused antinomianism, thus breaking with Luther. He was court preacher to Joachim II, elector of Brandenburg and helped draw up the Augsburg...
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Marrow Controversy
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
...Scotland arising out of the condemnation by the General Assembly in 1720 of The Marrow of Modern Divinity, a book written in 1645 and reissued in 1718. It advocated strongly Calvinistic doctrines and was held to favour antinomianism .
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Hutchinson, Anne
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...through immediate revelation, and that believers were freed from the moral law of the Old Testament. This doctrine, called Antinomianism, alarmed the colony's leadership, particularly when Hutchinson's meetings attracted merchants and the young governor...
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