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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The doctrines of St. Augustine.
  • noun The rules and practice of the Augustinians.

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  • noun The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians.

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  • noun The doctrines and practices of the Augustinians.

Etymologies

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Examples

  • As in the fifth century there had been two contending systems, known as Augustinianism and Pelagianism, with the later rise of the compromised system of Semi-Pelagianism, so at the Reformation there were two systems, Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, with the later rise of

    The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959

  • It will help to make intelligible the subtle and variable theories which follow, if it be premised that the Scholastics are apt to puzzle readers by mixing up with their philosophy of reason a real or apparent apriorism, which is called Augustinianism, Platonism, or

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • "Augustinianism," Augustine being, as remarked, the real author of the system, and not the Genevan divine.

    The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace

  • Cranmer's baptismal liturgy, above all, is a trenchant expression of western Augustinianism.

    The Book of Common Prayer, part 2: Wetting baby's head Alan Wilson 2010

  • Between World War I and the end of the Cold War, his unique blend of Augustinianism and liberal Protestantism was closely allied with a secular realism indebted to Machiavelli and Weber.

    Matthew Yglesias » Before There Was Early Rawls… 2007

  • For example, he makes the point that Thomas accepted the created world and rejected the supernaturalistic Augustinianism common to many earlier Catholic thinkers.

    The Social Order As Community 2008

  • On one point the medieval theologians diverged from rigid Augustinianism.

    Who can be saved? Fr Timothy Matkin 2008

  • On one point the medieval theologians diverged from rigid Augustinianism.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2008

  • Gregory's brand of doctrinal Augustinianism, influenced rather by the Franciscan and Oxonian tradition than the more Dominican (and Parisian) variety of Giles of Rome, soon dominated the Augustinian Hermits 'philosophy and theology.

    Gregory of Rimini Schabel, Christopher 2007

  • Étienne Gilson (1933) has characterized Marston's position as Augustinianism gone Avicennian (Augustinisme avicennisant).

    Divine Illumination Pasnau, Robert 2006

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