His pre-Montanist writings are characterized by moderation as compared with the fanatical rigorism and scornful bitterness against the Psychical, i.
But in opposition to such abandonment of the Christian and national conscience there was developed the contrary extreme of extravagant rigorism in obtrusive confessional courage and uncalled-for denunciation of the prophet.
But Greek love of art and the religious needs of the people gained the victory over Judaic-legal rigorism and abstract spiritualism.
But this aversion which in a Tertullian grew from a Montanistic rigorism into a fanatical hatred of art, is never met with as a constituent characteristic of Christianity.
Tertullian’s Montanistic rigorism shows itself in regarding marriages where these are omitted, occultæ conjunctiones, as no better than mœchia and fornicatio.
The contrast between his general argument and that of Nicole or Bayle throws light on the role which Mandeville's professed rigorism played in the execution of his satirical purposes.
Christian rigorism by Mandeville's time had had a long history.
Kaye argues that rigorism was not so unusual as of itself to justify doubt as to its genuineness in the case of Mandeville; rigorism was "a contemporary point of view both popular and respected, a view-point not yet extinct.
For other instances of disregard by Kaye of the variations in substance and degree of the rigorism of genuine rigorists, see ibid.
Kaye nevertheless insists that Mandeville's rigorism was sincere, and that it is necessary so to accept it to understand him.
The passage from Blewitt is not, of itself, manifestly rigoristic, while the position attributed to Mandeville is rigorism at its most extreme.
If this is accepted, then of the men cited by Kaye to show the orthodoxy and the contemporaneity of rigorismonly William Law has any relevance.
Very many imagine progress to be a struggle in behalf of Germany against the enfeebling system of innumerable small states, or a battling against religious rigorism and priest-rule in secular concerns.
Mr. Shund will not permit religious rigorism to put restraints upon his enjoyments.
Whosoever nowadays walks the grass-grown paths of rigorism is a doomed man.
Probabilism can likewise claim that it stands midway between the extremes of Rigorism (represented by Probabiliorism and Equiprobabilism), on the one side, and of Laxism, on the other side.
Equiprobabilism is further removed from Rigorism than Probabilism is from Laxism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rigorism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
