| 单词 | marrow man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMarrow man Marrow man n. see sense 4c. Marrow man c. Church History. Short for or in allusion to The Marrow of Modern Divinity, the title of a book by Edward Fisher (1645, republished with notes by the Revd. James Hog in 1718), which proposed a middle way between legalistic and antinomian Calvinism, and which was condemned by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1720 as antinomian in tendency. Usually attributive with reference to the prolonged controversy which this engendered, or to those people who defended the book or its views; spec. in Marrow man. ΚΠ 1721 J. Hog Controv. Marrow Mod. Divinity 55 If the Marrow must be condemned, let it be condemned upon a cleanly Ground. 1725 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 204 The Marrow people. a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) xi. 364 The assembly's act condemning the Marrow. 1853 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. 1689–1748 II. xx. 319 Those who adhered to this document, received the party-title of the Marrow-men. 1853 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. 1689–1748 II. xx. 319 The Marrow controversy. 1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet i. 12 Allan Welsh, minister of the Marrow Kirk in the parish of Dullarg. 1954 J. T. McNeill Hist. & Char. Calvinism 356 In fact the Marrow, while essentially Calvinist, brought to rigid Scottish Calvinism a fresh stimulus from Luther's early triumphant message... Ebenezer Erskine..when rebuked by the Assembly (1722) continued to teach the Marrow doctrines. 1979 G. G. Cameron Scots Kirk in London 232 Boston died in 1731; and without his saintly moderating influence the Marrow Men tended to argue their case with increasing acrimony. < as lemmas |
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