There were many faulty elements in the Latitudinarianism of the eighteenth century.
The dominant party in the Church was that which would now be called the Broad Church party, and among the Dissenters at least equal latitudinarianism was tolerated.
The Latitudinarianism which had already set in before the Revolution of 1688, unsatisfactory as it was in many respects, probably did more than any other agency in directing and gradually developing the general course of religious thought.
It only remains to divest the word as far as possible of its polemical associations, and to use it as denoting what some would call breadth, others Latitudinarianism of religious and ecclesiastical opinion.
His writings, therefore, may well serve to exemplify the moderate Latitudinarianism of a thoughtful and religious English Churchman at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Undoubtedly a lower form ofLatitudinarianism gained ground, very deficient in some important respects.
But that which gave Latitudinarianism its chief notoriety, as well as its name, was a direct practical question.
A moderate Latitudinarianism in regard of subscription was after all more candid, as it certainly was more rational.
He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion.
The privilege assumed by all who wished for such, of ordering them in conformity with their individual feelings or superstitions, quickly introduced greater latitudinarianism as to the selection and treatment of the subjects.
It may be feared that this latitudinarianism was not limited to manner, for an anecdote alleges him to have seriously recommended a young divine to avoid reading St. Paul's Epistles, lest they might mar his style.
As to the attack on latitudinarianism in the Thirty-nine Articles, see above, p.
Theological controversial tracts were numerous, but their polemical force was in great measure lost by the latitudinarianism of their authors.
The refusal convinced him that the Church had as much to apprehend from Latitudinarianism as from Popery; and he speedily became a Tory again, [485] Early in October the Commissioners assembled in the Jerusalem Chamber.
Literature and cultivation will feed life when life exists already; and toleration and latitudinarianism are well enough when mind and conscience are awake and energetic of themselves.
But latitudinarianism loosens the elementary principles of theology.
They carried the principle of analogical deduction to dangerous lengths in order to satisfy the latitudinarianism of the Khalíf.
When Latitudinarianism ceased to be ecclesiastical it passed from Oxford and became identified with the sister university.
The early Latitudinarianism was merely an essay in liberal ecclesiastical polity.
