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solifidian, n. and a. Theol.|səʊlɪˈfɪdɪən|
Also 7 solyfidian, solifidean.
[f. L. sōli-, combining form of sōl-us alone + fidēs faith.]
A. n. One who holds that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification.
The doctrine is based on Rom. iii. 28, where Luther rendered πίστει by ‘allein durch den Glauben’.
1596Bell Surv. Popery iii. ix. 394 Good works, which you and your solifidians cannot abide. 1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. vii. §33. 406, I never knew any Protestant such a soli-fidian, but that he did believe these divine truths. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. To Rdr. 25 That all of the Reformed Churches are not Solifidians. 1742–3Observ. Methodists 3 Very Civil indeed, O ye Solifidians. 1812–29Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 122 The heroic Solifidian, Martin Luther himself. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 53 The Solifidian—the believer in the possibility of an abstract faith which can show no works as an evidence of its existence.
B. adj.
1. Consisting of, pertaining to, the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
1605A. Wotton Answ. late Popish Articles 108 The which solifidian portion ouerthroweth flatly true repentance. 1670C. Gataker Harmony Truth 63 Who..have by Tongue and by Pen asserted the Solifidian and Fiduciary way of Justification. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 220 The same execrable Hypothesis..took in also the Solifidian Adiophorism of all Actions, good or bad. a1773A. Butler Moveable Feasts & F. (1852) II. 223 He attacked the Solifidian and Antinomian doctrines. 1884Sat. Rev. 3 Mar. 579 More seeking is needed to discover that theory within the sacred records than the solifidian one.
2. Of persons, etc.: Accepting or maintaining this doctrine.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. xlvii. (1677) 253 A Solifidean-Christian is a Nullifidean-Pagan, and confutes his tongue with his hand. 1871J. Martineau Ess. & Addr. (1891) IV. 152 We cannot join a Solifidian church. |