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Glasites
Glasites (also Sandemanians), a small Scottish sect named after John Glas and his son-in-law Robert Sandeman. Glas, who was ordained in 1719 as minister of Tealing, near Dundee, came to hold that the existence of a State Church was unscriptural and challenged the basis of the Presbyterian establishment. He was deposed in 1730. He established independent congregations among his (mainly poor) followers, for whom unordained elders conducted communion services. Leadership gradually passed to Sandeman, who in Letters on Theron and Aspasio (1757) attacked the Calvinist teaching that God imputes the righteous acts of Christ to individual Christians, holding rather that a reasoned faith was the only basis for a proper relationship with God and the attainment of salvation.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Glasites." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Glasites." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Glasites.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Glasites." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-Glasites.html |
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John Glas
John Glas , 1695-1773, Scottish minister, founder of an independent Presbyterian sect whose members were often called Glasites or Glassites. He believed that national churches and civil interference in religious matters are not authorized in the Scriptures. These views found expression in his Testimony of the King of Martyrs (1727). Glas was deposed from the ministry in 1730; he formed an independent congregation at Dundee. The Glasite church moved to Perth in 1733, where it was joined by Robert Sandeman, who later took the lead in extending the movement to England and America. There the Glasites were known as Sandemanians. |
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"John Glas." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "John Glas." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Glas.html "John Glas." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Glas.html |
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