latitudinarian

How To Use latitudinarian In A Sentence

• In specifying severe judgment, as is widely recommended, are the bishops engaged in a form of retribution for having erred in the past by latitudinarian excess?
• Shaftesbury's formulation of sentimentality as either a manifestation of latitudinarianism or deism, both vaguely secularized systems of advancing self-sufficient virtue as the means by which manners dominated and controlled behavior in the public realm. Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos
• He wants to know more about liberal latitudinarianism in theology.
• Several of the bishops were, in fact, "latitudinarian" or "Arminian" in doctrine, wanderers from the severity of Knox and Calvin. A Short History of Scotland
• Constantinople had given him a taste for Anacreontic singing, and female society of the questionable kind, a love of strong waters, — the hypocrite looked positively scandalised when I first suggested the subject, — and an off-hand latitudinarian mode of dealing with serious subjects in general. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• His ecumenical disposition tends toward the latitudinarian, although he has clarified that he does think there may still be church-dividing differences between Catholics and Lutherans.
• He spurns the label of ‘laxity’ for latitudinarianism and defends Anglicanism as a venerable bulwark against the encroachments and excesses of Rome.
• No wide secession to Rome, however, followed the development of this seventeenth-century school, though it played a large part in the nonjuror schism, and with the decay of that schism and under the latitudinarian tendencies of the eighteenth century it greatly dwindled. The Map of Life Conduct and Character
• The utmost latitudinarianism, as has been mentioned, was allowed in the matter of costume, but this rule was subject to one exception. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
• Scholars describe the Leverett curriculum as ‘catholick,’ meaning that the tutors adopted a latitudinarian stance on many doctrinal issues.