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Socinian
[soh-sin-ee-uhn]
noun
a follower of Faustus and Laelius Socinus who rejected a number of traditional Christian doctrines, as the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and original sin, and who held that Christ was miraculously begotten and that salvation will be granted to those who adopt Christ's virtues.
adjective
of or relating to the Socinians or their doctrines.
Socinian
/ əʊˈɪɪə /
noun
a supporter of the beliefs of Faustus and Laelius Socinus, who rejected such traditional Christian doctrines as the divinity of Christ, the Trinity, and original sin, and held that those who follow Christ's virtues will be granted salvation
adjective
of or relating to the Socinians or their beliefs
Other Word Forms
- Socinianism noun
- ˈԾˌ noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
While an apprentice, a controversy with a Socinian led him to study Greek, that he might read the New Testament in the original.
The English Socinians, followed by Voltaire, uprooted the Christian idea, and Rousseau after denying the true nature of God, set up the worship of man in His place.
He is a Socinian, and must be answered in another place.
Just the same is the Calvinist opinion of the Lutheran proofs for the real presence, and the Socinian view of the texts alleged by Calvinists in behalf of Christ's divinity.
This acrimonious repudiation added groans to Paine's sick and sinking heart, some of which were returned upon his Socinian assailant, and in kind.
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