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	Discoveries: Discoveries in Renaissance Culture
		This was the hallmark of his concept of Erastianism, in which the state should exercise sovereignty over the church, though what he really was trying to do was to prevent the reimposition of what he regarded as arbitrary clerical tyranny.
		Erastianism was opposed to giving the church and the government the right to excommunicate because the exercise of such power would promote clerical tyranny (Figgis, 302).
		Erastianism required obedience to the constituted authority of the English government as represented by the monarch, who has power over the church and the government.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~nydam/scrc/discoveries/drc222/ardolino222.htm (2063 words)

	Erastianism
		Erastianism takes its name from Thomas Erastus (1524 - 83), who was born at Baden, studied theology at Basel, and later medicine, becoming professor of medicine at Heidelberg.
		Figgis calls it "the theory that religion is the creature of the state." Generally it signifies that the state is supreme in ecclesiastical causes, but Erastus dealt only with the disciplinary powers of the church.
		The name Erastian emerged in England in the Westminister Assembly (1643) when outstanding men like Selden and Whitelocke advocated the supremacy of the state over the church.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/erastian.htm (509 words)

	Erastus and Erastianism
		The name "Erastianism" is often used in a somewhat loose sense as denoting an undue subservience of the Church to the State.
		After a long controversy, a definite resolution, affirming that the Church has its own government distinct from the civil power, was carried almost unanimously, the sole dissentient being the well-known divine, John Lightfoot.
		On the general questions of the relation between Church and State, it must be admitted that the opinions popularly denoted by the word Erastian have unmistakable influence on the Established Church of England, though there has always been a party resisting the encroachments of civil power.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/e/erastus_and_erastianism.html (1914 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- church and state - AOL Research & Learn
		When the empire began to disintegrate, the power of the state over the church declined; and under the Ottoman sultans the situation was reversed to the extent that the patriarchs of Constantinople were given political power over the laity of their churches.
		The nearest the papacy ever came to Erastianism was in the period during which the popes resided at Avignon, where they were virtually at the beck and call of the French kings.
		The most extreme form of Erastianism is seen in the Church of England (see England, Church of), of which the monarch is supreme head.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/church-and-state/20051205220709990007 (1749 words)

	parties
		The predominant Erastian churches in our time are in Europe or Asia (such as the state churches of Sweden, Germany, or Russia), with little sympathy for this form of government in the USA.
		The Erastian error being born, the breasts which gave it suck were profaneness and self-interest; its strong food, when advance in growth, was arbitrary government; and its careful tutor was Arminianism"5.
		It is impossible to overestimate the sway and expertise that the Scottish commissioners brought to the Assembly.
	www.rtrc.net /westminster/critical/parties.htm (4522 words)

	Erastus, Thomas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Erastus was motivated by his fear of the usurpation of temporal powers by the church.
		The term Erastianism has come to represent approval of the dominance of civil authority in all punitive measures and, by extension, complete dominance of the state over the church, though Erastus himself never held such an extreme view.
		Erastianism achieved its definitive expression in the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-erastust.html (295 words)

	Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States
		The leading Erastians of that period, learned and subtle as they were, felt in impossible to evade the force of that proposition, and could but refuse to give to it the sanction of the Legislature.
		Of this the framers of our Confession were well aware; and, therefore, they strove to procure the well-adjusted and mutual counterpoise and co-operation of the two jurisdictions, as the best safeguards of both civil and religious liberty, and as founded on the express authority of the Word of God.
		There is no Erastianism here, for, these councils and synods, such as the Westminster Assembly, were not courts of the church, but consultant committees to the state.
	www.rpcus.com /?id=RPCUS_WhyOrigConfession (3964 words)

	Newman Reader - Difficulties of Anglicans - Lecture 6
		Erastianism, the fruitful mother of all heresies, will be your first and your last.
		You will have left Erastianism to take Erastianism up again,—that heresy which is the very badge of Anglicanism, and the abomination of that theological movement from which you spring.
		I here assert, then, that a Branch or National Church is necessarily Erastian, and cannot be otherwise, till the nature of man is other than it is; and I shall prove this from the state of the case, and from the course of history, and from the confession, or rather avowal, of its defenders.
	www.newmanreader.org /works/anglicans/volume1/lecture6.html (3929 words)

	Josiah, Erastianism, and National Covenanting Part One
		The father of it is the old serpent … [H]e hath cunningly gone about to draw men, first into a jealousy, and then into a dislike of the ecclesiastical discipline by God’s mercy restored in the reformed churches.
		3) The Erastians, particularly the Arminians, were prepared to grant the monarch all authority which the Pope had formerly claimed: that is, the power of all judgment, the power of all ultimate authority, in matters of doctrine, worship, and practice in the Church.
		The pinnacle of what constitutes the doctrine of Erastianism was that the civil magistrate, as head of the church, had power as a lawgiver to the church.
	www.fpcr.org /blue_banner_articles/josiah1.htm (3665 words)

	New Oxford Review
		Erastianism thus became a byword for the view that the state should control the church.
		In the course of time, Erastianism prevailed to a greater or lesser extent in all realms where Protestantism was the established religion, and in regions like Scandinavia the state churches are still, in practice, governed by the state.
		By this I mean that these churches do not make decisions about doctrine and practice on the basis of the Bible as interpreted by their own tradition — much less the Tradition (with a capital T) that the Catholic and Orthodox churches regard as authoritative.
	www.newoxfordreview.org /reviews.jsp?did=0599-tighe (2339 words)

	What Arminian and Arminianism mean
		In 1591, he was appointed to a commission that drew up a church order giving the church a position subordinate to and dependent upon the state.
		This position, called Erastianism, was contrary to Calvin's belief that the church should have a measure of independence from the state.
		This order was unpopular with most ministers, especially as it disagreed with the Belgic Confession (1561) that stated that one of the marks of a true church is that it exercise church discipline in punishing sin.
	www.wordofhisgrace.org /ArminianQA.htm (1668 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Anglicanism
		In 1413 Archbishop Arundel, with the assent of Convocation, affirmed against the Lollards the faith of the English Church in a number of test articles, including the Divine institution of the Papacy and the duty of all Christians to render obedience to it (Wilkins, Concilia, III, 355).
		The first point of severance was clearly one of Erastianism.
		Thus the chief note of Henrician settlement is the fact that Anglicanism was founded in the acceptance of the Royal, and the rejection of the Papal Supremacy, and was placed upon a decidedly Erastian basis.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01498a.htm (5545 words)

	FT November 2002: The Public Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Erastianism is the doctrine that the state or nation should govern in spiritual and ecclesiastical matters.
		Wills does not use the term Erastianism, but the doctrine does seem to be regnant throughout his argument; it is the thread that ties together what otherwise may appear to be the many disjointed parts.
		Wills’ Erastian construal of history, the attempted usurpations go far back, with John Paul’s and Ratzinger’s effort being but the last gasp of protest against the new order that should have been settled once and for all by Vatican II.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0211/public.html (16297 words)

	EIPS - Rome In The News
		The ideal relationship between State and Church has evaded mankind throughout the ages, except perhaps for the theocracy of ancient Israel at its best.
		The Scots accuse the English established church of erastianism, that is allowing the state to dictate in the internal affairs of the church.
		The English accuse the Scottish church of the opposite – interfering in the province of the state.
	www.ianpaisley.org /new_details.asp?ID=42 (698 words)

	Josiah, Erastianism, and National Covenanting Part Three
		Second, CAN he do it: that is, whence comes ability and empowerment for such a humanly impossible undertaking?
		Previously, we showed conclusively how that Josiah was no Erastian.
		We showed how there always was a distinction between ecclesiastical and civil government in the OT, and how that Josiah in essence caused Israel to stand to the covenant, which God had already made with them.
	www.fpcr.org /blue_banner_articles/josiah3.htm (3480 words)

	Erastianism - English-French Dictionary - WordReference.com
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	www.wordreference.com /enfr/Erastianism (57 words)

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