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  • noun Plural form of antinomian.

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Examples

  • In this respect, iconoclast though he is, he is rather with the Buddha and the Christ than with the modern antinomians.

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

  • But a recognition of the fact that Taylor distinctly belongs to the antinomians of English prose, or at least to those guiltless heathens who lived before the laws of it had been asserted, can not in any competent critic dull the sense of the wonderful beauty of his style.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • But this is the doctrine of the antinomians: and the foundation of this they have laid in another wild, erroneous assertion, that every believer was actually justified from eternity, and that his faith is only a declaration of this to his conscience, but no ways effective of any alteration of his state or condition.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

  • First then, that doctrine that exempts all believers from the obligation of the moral law is directly destructive of all godliness; which doctrine is taught and asserted by the antinomians, who from thence derive that name, as being opposers of the law.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

  • By the doctrine of the covenant of grace without conditions of performance on man's part, but only to believe that he is justified: taught by the antinomians, 84. 2.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

  • This may serve to overthrow the wild and irrational justification of the antinomians, libertines, and lazy solifidians, who upon this ground only judge themselves to be Christ's, because they believe they are: a way of justification, for its easiness, rather to be wished true than to be thought so.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

  • By that doctrine of the antinomians, that exempts all believers from the obligation of the moral law, 87. 2.

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823

  • It is for this reason why the conflict between legalists who follow the law without the spirit, and antinomians, who believe the law has been renounced in the order of grace, represents a false dichotomy - for the world to be, for our actions to have any real meaning, there must be a law which regulates and grace which frees.

    Vox Nova 2009

  • Constitution as "radically and essentially slaveholding," but many were committed antinomians and "no-government" men — slavery being a paradigmatic instance of the violence inherent in all rule.

    Claremont.org 2009

  • Retort is a gathering of antinomians based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news 2009

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