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antinomianism
antinomianism The doctrine held by a group of Christians taught by Paul that Christ has freed us from slavery under the
Law, indeed a freedom from any restraints at all. This travesty of his view is repudiated by Paul in Rom. 6; and Matt. 5: 17–18 also asserts the principle that laws and customs have a continuing validity in regulating private and public existence.
Antinomianism was not an intellectual justification of human frailty but a serious claim that the Christian
life was a life of the
spirit, not of the
body; the Christian was above ancient Mosaic scruples. It has frequently reappeared in the Church and as frequently been repudiated (as by John Wesley in 1740) as heretical, even by those who have been most clear that the gospel is not compatible with a legalistic ethic.
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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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Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Hasidism on the Margin: Reconciliation, Antinomianism, and Messianism in Izbica/Radzin...perspectives on determinism, messianism, and antinomianism that reverberate to the present. His...this monograph examines the concept of antinomianism in Izbica/Radzin Hasidism. It is...
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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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Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...dialectic's historical influence. Antinomianism in early Stuart England has long been...this problem of the very existence of antinomianism by reading his sources against one...26) of a very real early Stuart antinomianism, the existence of which not only radically...
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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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The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638.( )(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...offer contrasting views of the relationship between antinomianism and mainstream Puritanism in early seventeenth-century England and New England. Both historians agree that antinomianism, with its emphasis on the effortless enjoyment of free...
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Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...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
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...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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Heresy, Literature, and Politics in Early Modern English Culture
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Baxter's famed tolerance of error faltered when it came to antinomianism, which had seemed to him horrifically embodied in Cromwell...Baxter lived to participate in disputes over accusations of antinomianism, which in the 1690s swiftly broke up the "Happy Union...
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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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