How To Use Latitudinarian In A Sentence

  • Like their English counterparts, American latitudinarian Anglicans, such as Alexander Garden, also shaped Enlightened Dissent.
  • Given my general position on constitutional interpretation, I certainly don't want to argue, as a theoretical matter, that the Impeachment Clause might not be open to the latitudinarian interpretations suggested by some of the contributors to this thread. Balkinization
  • Lucy the fanaticism of some of her own communion, while she intimated, rather than expressed, horror at the latitudinarian principles which she had been taught to think connected with the prelatical form of church government. The Bride of Lammermoor
  • The Church of England's latitudinarian moderation could satisfy the mind but it could not reach the heart. p. Supremacy and Survival
  • Lucy the fanaticism of some of her own communion, while she intimated, rather than expressed, horror at the latitudinarian principles which she had been taught to think connected with the prelatical form of church government. The Bride of Lammermoor
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  • The latitudinarianism of the incumbent rabbi was attuned to the religious outlook of the congregation's membership, for whom Orthodoxy was a matter of preference, not of practice.
  • But the swelling tide of latitudinarian theology and sentiment made it seem innocuous enough to most.
  • Actually, some figures of the period, such as Hans Denck and Sebastian Franck, did; but latitudinarianism was itself regarded as a heresy.
  • He wants to know more about liberal latitudinarianism in theology.
  • Yet the University, as a whole, stood slightly aloof from him, and before long in certain obscurantist circles cautious hints of latitudinarianism were murmured against him. Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment
  • But, my dear sir," said the curate, in pious horror, "that is rank latitudinarianism! She and I, Volume 1
  • See J.G. E. Pocock's typically conclusive summary: The ideal of politeness had first appeared in the restoration, where it formed part of the latitudinarian campaign to replace prophetic by sociable religiosity. Notes on 'Post-Secular Conviviality'
  • The archbishop, thinking to have a little fun with his guest, said, ` ` Of course, first of all, I must know what your church politics are: are you an attitudinarian, a latitudinarian, or a platitudinarian? '' [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White
  • However, the writings of latitudinarians Tillotson, Stillingfleet, and Wilkins received the most accolades.
  • It is for want of sufficiently investigating and allowing for this moral and political latitudinarianism of our enemies, that we are apt to be too precipitate in censuring the conduct of the war; and, in our estimation of what has been done, we pay too little regard to the principles by which we have been directed. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
  • It is a commonplace to associate the low view of the episcopate not only with latitudinarians, but also with nineteenth-century evangelicals.
  • But a Justice who subscribes to the view that the Constitution's makers intended the judiciary to be the prime headwind against impetuous and myopic Congresses and Presidents will readily embrace latitudinarian interpretations of the text to fulfill the judicial role and blunt the political branches, he says. William Fisher: Sotomayor: The Umpires Strike Out!
  • But there is too much latitudinarianism in this nineteenth century. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • Platitudinarian; latitudinarian; attitudinarian," came the answer, with a chuckle, then, turning to Filmer, who had stepped over to hear the joke, he added, "What do you think of my boat?" and pointed to a slim, black, two-masted steam-yacht that lay anchored just off the shore. The Rapids
  • Arminianism became a positive aid to the growth of toleration in England; for it became what was called latitudinarian, -- that is, broad in temper, inclusive in spirit, and desirous of bringing all the nation within the limits of one harmonizing and noble-minded church. Unitarianism in America
  • By then it had taken on some of the characteristics of the evangelical revival and shed its lukewarm latitudinarianism.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • His reputation was as a conciliator and latitudinarian, anxious not to oppress the dissenters.
  • Nor did he appeal at all to live-and-let-live latitudinarians.
  • But here is what neither Papist nor Puritan, latitudinarian nor precisian, ever boggles or makes mouths at. Kenilworth
  • New Hampshire, first settled by New England Congregationalists and by more latitudinarian Anglican colonists, was chartered in 1679.
  • I take a very latitudinarian view of poetry — and literature. Progress report on online poetry ...
  • latitudinarian" novels constitute a remarkable portion of the recent romantic literature of Germany, we perceive has entered a convent. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
  • Wishy-washy latitudinarians that we are, the editors emphasize that each group is independent and works out whatever works best for participants.
  • Shaftesbury's role in defining Sentimentality as "the affective spectacle of benign generosity" (211), as well as its contested religious origins in latitudinarianism and Notes on 'Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos'
  • It is pleasing further to remark that a kind of latitudinarianism was allowed by the Fathers themselves. Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell

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