Thus, with no Archbishop of Canterbury officially announcing it, nor Lords adopting it, latitudinarianism was the operative philosophy of the English church in the 18th century.
12.
Since dissenting, Establishment and Independent divines were in print, the constant movement of these works helped defuse any region's religious homogeneity and fostered emergent latitudinarianism.
13.
In the 18th century the " dominant trend " in Britain, particularly in Latitudinarianism, was towards Arianism, with which the names of Samuel Clarke, Benjamin Hoadly, William Whiston and Isaac Newton are associated.
14.
The same years witnessed a literary controversy with Karl Immanuel Nitzsch over the question of the Union and confessional latitudinarianism, a controversy in which Kahnis sought to demonstrate the lack of doctrinal unity prevailing among the supporters of the movement.
15.
Together with his friend John Jebb, bishop of Limerick, Knox developed a distinctive style of high-churchmanship ( evidenced in his theology of sacraments ) which also respected strains in evangelicalism, Methodism and seventeenth-century latitudinarianism.
16.
According to G . Beckerlegge, " M�ller's background as a Lutheran German and his identification with the Broad Church party " led to " suspicion by those opposed to the political and religious positions that they felt M�ller represented ", particularly his latitudinarianism.
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For the 18th-century English church in the United States ( which would become the Episcopal Church after the American Revolution ), latitudinarianism was the only practical course since it was a nation with official pluralism and diversity of opinion and diffusion of clerical power.
18.
The Oxford Movement had been inspired in the first place by a rejection of liberalism and latitudinarianism in favour of the traditional faith of the " Church Catholic ", defined by the teachings of the Church Fathers and the common doctrines of the historical western Christian churches.
19.
Brent also had his critics . It seemed to many that Brent s commitment to church unity resulted in his minimizing fundamentals of Christian doctrine . His broad definition of the Catholic Church and his latitudinarianism with regard to Holy Orders were denounced .
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In the Roman Catholic Church, latitudinarianism was condemned in the 19th century document " Quanta cura "; Pope Pius IX felt that, with its emphasis on religious liberty and freedom to discard traditional Christian doctrines and dogmas, this attitude threatened to undermine the church.
