In the Monothelite controversy a unionistic effort was resisted which indeed allowed the duality of natures to be affirmed nominally, but practically denied it by the acknowledgment of only one will.
A greatly attenuated Lutheranism with unionistic sympathies and frequent abandonment of the German language also found expression in the congregations of the Old Pennsylvanian Synod.
Melanchthonianism may be defined as an effort to inoculate Lutheranism with a unionisticand Calvinistic virus.
Down to the present day the Formula of Concord has been assailed particularly byunionistic and Reformed opponents of true Lutheranism.
Over against Luther," says Schaff, "Melanchthon represented the unionistic and liberal type of Lutheranism.
He did, however, in the interest of his irenic and unionisticpolicy and dogmatic vacillations, render ambiguous and weaken the clear sense of the Augustana.
Is the Church of Luther to remain, or to be transformed into a unionistic or Reformed body?
Because of this able and staunch defense of Lutheranism and the determined opposition to any unionistic compromise, Magdeburg at that time was generally called "God's chancellery, Gottes Kanzlei.
This unionistic attitude of the Exegesis has been generally, also in America, termed Melanchthonianism.
Their object was to supplant the authority and theology of Luther by the unionistic and liberal views of Melanchthon.
Sadly he had his way, and had not the tendency which he inaugurated been checked, the Lutheran Church would have lost its character and been transformed into a Reformed or, at least, a unionistic body.
The secession of the four Southern synods in 1863 was not caused by any doctrinal differences or dissatisfaction with, and opposition to, the un-Lutheran confessional basis and unionistic practise of the General Synod.
The union was not consummated because the anti-unionistic construction which Iowa put on the Galesburg Rule was disavowed within the General Council and never acknowledged and approved of by this body as such.
Missouri Synod, without sacrificing its anti-unionistic principles, could hardly have taken a different course of action than it did.
She has cooperated with the American Bible and Tract Societies, and Sunday-school Union, and like agencies, and excited the contempt of her enemies by these 'unionistic efforts.
Judged by the real conditions, the General Council has always been a unionistic body.
Walther wrote: "Scarcely any event within the bounds of the Lutheran Church of North America has ever afforded us greater joy than the withdrawal of the Synod of Pennsylvania from the unionistic so-called General Synod.
Brown and Valentine, both of whom were not essentially Lutheran, but unionistic and Reformed theologians.
Morris approved of theunionistic practises of the General Synod.
In 1896 the Herald of the General Council, itself a mildly unionistic paper, wrote: "It is gradually getting better in the General Synod.
Self-evidently, Tennessee did not adhere to this practise in the interest of Reformed or unionistic views.
The Agenda of 1842 still contained the union formula of distribution in the Lord's Supper and revealed a unionistic and Reformed spirit everywhere.
In the following year the unionistic and rationalistic Agenda characterized above was adopted by the Ministerium.
He disapproved of, and opposed, theunionistic practises of the Swedish and Halle pastors.
Besides, in reality these seminaries were not Lutheran, but unionistic and, in a degree, Reformed schools.
In brief, Muhlenberg's attitude toward the Reformed and other sects was of a nature which cannot be justified as Lutheran nor construed as non-unionistic in character.
This appears from her uncompromising attitude toward the Romanistic, Reformed, Methodistic, and unionistic tendencies prevailing in the Lutheran synods and congregations at the time of her organization.
Despite enmity, contempt, and slander, they were unwilling to enter into any unionistic compromise at the expense of the truth as they saw it.
And the unionistic practises indulged in by the General Synod throughout its history cannot but be viewed as the fruits of the tree first planted by the Halle emissaries.
Here also it was, in the first place, of a unionistic character.
New York, attending the unionistic church dedication, 1774 in Boston, and ten years later again in New York, whither he returned to ingratiate himself with the Lutherans who had not emigrated to Nova Scotia with Houseal.
Just as little as the workingmen can expect from legislative methods can they gain from trade-unionistic efforts that attempt to better economic conditions along the basic lines of the present industrial system.
The first trade-unionistic attempts have met with the same ferocious persecution that Anarchism is being met with to-day.
By constant agitation they reminded the representatives in The Hague that what the people wanted was a unionistic constitution, not another mild dilution of the old-fashioned rule of the regent.
The united patriotic clubs loudly applauded this declaration of unionistic principles.
He did not fancy this role of second fiddle at all and became an enemy of the Dutch directors and the unionistic party.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unionistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
