Osiandristn.adj.

1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. vii. i. 287/2 The Lutherans..desir'd the Duke of Saxony to assemble a Synod against the Sacramentarians, the Adiaphorists, the Synergists, and the Osiandrists. It was assembled at Jena in 1560.

1850 Mrs. Horrocks tr. W. Menzel Hist. Germany (1871) II. 284 All the Osiandrists quitted the country.

1857 E. B. Pusey Real Presence (1869) i. 80 The Roman Collocutors..required the Lutherans to ‘declare their dissent from the..Osiandrists and others external to the Confession of Augsburg’.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia at Osiander Osiander wrote several treatises expounding his theological views, which his followers, the Osiandrists, continued to promote until 1567.

1878 F. J. Pabisch & T. S. Byrne tr. J. B. Alzog Man. Universal Church Hist. III. iii. 318 The Osiandrist controversy. The opinions of Agricola, were again revived by Andrew Osiander in his inaugural address (1549) as head of the Theological Faculty of the newly-founded University of Koenigsberg.

1977 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 49 d1291 The Osiandrist party in Prussia or the Swabian party in southwest Germany.

1983 Renaissance Q. 36 282 His doctrinal works [are discussed] within the contemporary climate of theological speculation, especially the Osiandrist controversy (a fairly subtle argument as to whether the rebirth of man in Christ is a contributory cause of his justification).