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socinianism

socinianism


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Socinianism  \So*cin"i*an*ism\,  n.  (Eccl.  Hist.) 
  The  tenets  or  doctrines  of  Faustus  Socinus,  an  Italian 
  theologian  of  the  sixteenth  century,  who  denied  the  Trinity, 
  the  deity  of  Christ,  the  personality  of  the  Devil,  the  native 
  and  total  depravity  of  man,  the  vicarious  atonement,  and  the 
  eternity  of  future  punishment.  His  theory  was  that  Christ 
  was  a  man  divinely  commissioned,  who  had  no  existence  before 
  he  was  conceived  by  the  Virgin  Mary;  that  human  sin  was  the 
  imitation  of  Adam's  sin,  and  that  human  salvation  was  the 
  imitation  and  adoption  of  Christ's  virtue;  that  the  Bible  was 
  to  be  interpreted  by  human  reason;  and  that  its  language  was 
  metaphorical,  and  not  to  be  taken  literally.