osiandrian

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A follower of Andreas Osiander, a Lutheran theologian (1498-1552), who held that justification by faith involved the imparting to the believer of the essential righteousness of Christ.
2. Of or pertaining to the doctrine of Andreas Osiander, a German theologian of the Reformation and a disciple of Luther. He agreed fundamentally with his master, but propounded a mystical doctrine of justification by faith, claiming that it is not an imputation but an infusion of the divine righteousness.