Erastianism

In 1659 he published A Treatise of Civil Power, attacking the concept of a state-dominated church the position known as Erastianism, as well as Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove hirelings, denouncing corrupt practises in church governance.

AS SEEN ON TV: JOHN MILTON Toby O'B 2009

In 1659 he published A Treatise of Civil Power, attacking the concept of a state-dominated church the position known as Erastianism, as well as Considerations touching the likeliest means to remove hirelings, denouncing corrupt practises in church governance.

Archive 2009-12-06 Toby O'B 2009

It is true that all the innovators would have recoiled from bald Erastianism, which is not found in the theses of Thomas Erastus, [Sidenote: Erastus, 1524-83] but in the free-thinker Thomas Hobbes.

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

This is called Erastianism, and is the bugbear of High Churchmen.

The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905

This is called Erastianism, and is the bugbear of High Churchmen.

The Life of Froude 1894

The great point at the time with these good men in London, -- some of them men of the highest principle, and far from influenced by what we used to call Erastianism, -- was to put down the Tracts.

Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

The name "Erastianism" is often used in a somewhat loose sense as denoting an undue subservience of the Church to the State.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

Professor Hume Brown, however, justly remarks that what the Kirk, immediately after Knox's death, called "Erastianism"

John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

Mary Ann Sieghart's extraordinary suggestion that the church 'must eventually reflect the society within which it works' is a recipe for a blatant Erastianism, against which the Archbishop has resolutely set his face.

Press reports on the Archbishop's correspondence 2008

He is my prisoner, made by my sword and spear, while you, Mr Morton, were playing the adjutant at drills and parades, and you, Mr Poundtext, were warping the Scriptures into Erastianism.

Old Mortality 2004