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Definition of Socinus
1. Noun. Italian theologian who argued against Trinitarianism (1539-1604).
Generic synonyms: Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Socinus
Literary usage of Socinus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"Although he is generally regarded as the founder of the Socinian party, his
nephew, Faustus Socinus, was in reality the one who gave form to that faith. ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"Octavo, containing forty-two pages. TO THE READER. THE life of Socinus is here
exposed to thy view, that by the perusal thereof thou ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The theological turmoil, together with the outbreak of the pest, caused him to
leave Transylvania, 1579, and proceed to Poland, where the name Socinus had ..."
4. Unitarianism: Its Origin and History: A Course of Sixteen Lectures Delivered by American Unitarian Association (1889)
"There is a tradition that in his youth Socinus- had belonged to a club of
free-thinkers in Italy, who, among their other heresies, rejected the Trinity; ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1841)
"SOC ind pass judgment on the conduct of princes, however, Socinus ... By this
marriage Socinus became connected with the principal families ot Poland, ..."
6. Antitrinitarian Biography: Or, Sketches of the Lives and Writings of by Robert Wallace (1850)
"The object of this letter was to dissuade Socinus from entering into any controversies,
... He blames Socinus in particular for his book against James ..."
7. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1842)
"In these, among his other deviations from the general orthodoxy of Christendom,
Socinus astonished mankind by denying the evidences of natural religion, ..."
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