Definition of Erastianism in English:
Erastianism
nounɪˈrastɪəˌnɪz(ə)miˈrastēəˌnizəm
mass nounThe doctrine that the state should have supremacy over the Church in ecclesiastical matters (wrongly attributed to Erastus).
Example sentencesExamples
- Maurice did not regard himself as Broad Church, and his socialism seems at odds with Arnold's Erastianism.
- The doctrine ever since known as Erastianism still lives on in the Church of England, as least so far as episcopal appointments are concerned.
- No Jacobite before 1716, he was driven to Jacobite intrigue by one-party tyranny and Whig Erastianism.
Derivatives
noun ɛˈrastɪən
A supporter of the doctrine that the state should have supremacy over the Church in ecclesiastical matters (wrongly attributed to Erastus)
he was an Erastian who believed in parliamentary control of the Church
Example sentencesExamples
- However, this Erastian principle flows from sincere and primary and pre-constructed doctrine.
- Though, as an Erastian institution, the Church of England dates only from the 16th cent., Christianity in these islands originated with merchants, administrators, and soldiers in 2nd and 3rd-cent.
- A Presbyterian, and later an Erastian in his views on Church government, in this poem Prynne's thought seems to point towards Robert Browne's early anticlericalism.