His piety was deep, earnest and sincere, but is quite of the legalistic and hard external kind that characterizes Roman Catholicism.
His theory of morals, with its legalistic tendency and its righteousness of works, was grounded not in Judaism but in Stoicism.
Bryennius and others, from the intentional prominence given to the twelve Apostles in the title and from the legalistic moralizing spirit that pervades the book, felt themselves justified in seeking its origin in Jewish-Christian circles.
It was largely due to Isaac Errett and the Christian Standard that the Disciples did not become a legalistic and exclusive sect.
This party is important for our purpose because it is one of the sources from which the Campbells derived suggestions for a rational conception of faith and the idea of "restoration" in its more legalistic and literalistic aspects.
Legalistic controversy over missionary methods had previously absorbed so much energy that little was left for missionary work.
The tendency of all these churches was toward a rather literalistic and legalistic interpretation of Scripture, with special emphasis upon exact conformity to a pattern of ordinances, organization, and worship.
From the few documents belonging to this period, it is clear that there was no opposition to the legalistic spirit by which the Priestly Code was actuated.
The legalistic attitude may be summarily described as an attempt to live in accordance with the will of God, caring less for what God is than for what He wants us to be.
There is probably no work in which the Halachic or legalistic side of this sect is better described than in this volume of Weiss.
He appointed himself dictator (ta yuean shuai) and let the legalistic logicians construe it as they might.
Its power rested on universal registration of the inhabitants, conscription, heavy policing, taxation involving constant intervention in economic matters, and legalistic administration.
This opposition, no doubt, was bitter chiefly when mysticism became revolutionary in practice, when it invaded the established customs of legalistic orthodoxy.
As in his philosophical discussions he is a follower of the Kalam, so in his legalistic works he is indebted to the Mohammedan schools of religious law.
Then if he has time left, he may devote it to legalistic discussions, and there would be no harm.
Legalistic religion, or the "covenant of works," is much of a piece with superstition.
True religion, on the other hand, is absolutely another thing, sundered by the width of the sky from either superstition or legalistic religion.
Like superstition, legalistic religion also has "crept into our clothes" and "twined about our secret devotions.
But religion of this normal and spiritual type must be sharply differentiated both from superstition and from legalistic religion.
Practically all the habitable lands, and practically all the natural resources, are already divided among private legalistic owners.
It gave a legalistic excuse to imprison, burn and hang people for expressing an opinion which the ruling classes did not like.
The blow which shattered Judaism, at once cleared the ground for the outward progress of the gospel and arrested the legalistic reaction which hindered its internal development.
The culmination of thelegalistic conflict was attended with an inner crisis that left its ineffaceable impression on the Apostle's soul.
They are the Circumcisionists, Jewish Christians who sought to persuade the Pauline Gentile Churches to adopt circumcision and to receive their own legalistic perversion of the gospel of Christ.
And it accords with the position which the legalistic opposition had now taken up.
There were already, we should suppose, in the Galatian societies, before the arrival of the Judaizers, Jewish believers in Christ of legalistic tendencies, prepared to welcome and support the new teachers.
They protect from exaggeration and abuse the liberty already defended from legalistic encroachments.
At any rate, the danger of a legalistic propaganda either in Philippi or in Rome does not seem to be very seriously in view.
The whole spirit of their lives, moreover, was quite different from that which prevailed in legalistic Judaism; anxious thought for the morrow, gloomy contemplation of the triumphs of the oppressor, had given place to exultant joy.
Not only some of the Federal judges, but some of the State courts invoked the Constitution in a spirit of the narrowest legalistic obstruction to prevent the Government from acting in defense of labor on inter-State railways.
At that time a narrowly legalistic point of view toward natural resources obtained in the Departments, and controlled the Governmental administrative machinery.
One could conceive it to be, in one sense, a protest against the legalistic conception of religion encouraged by the work of Ezra, and this would admirably fit the date assigned.
But this universalism has a distinctly Levitical and legalistic colouring, xiv.
We have already seen how prominent thelegalistic interest is in xl.
This is the legalistic development we see in the Talmud and the Palestinian synagogue.
So also with the denationalized Judaism of the Dispersion, a more insidious danger for early converts from heathenism than the stricter, legalistic type.
Average synagogue religion still left room for a more fatherly relation of God to the individual, in spite of the gradual encroachment of the legalistic system of the scribes.
Some such eschatology of divine judgment and reward is an almost necessary complement to the legalistic type of religion.
