Word: erastian
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...clergymen who are here today feel some of the same contempt for organized religion that our unreligious or anti-religious brothers feel. They know better than we do the long and bloody history of evils committed in the name of religion, the long history of compromise and Erastian subservience to political power, the long history of theological hair-splitting and the burning of heretics, and they feel more deeply than we do the hypocrisy of Sunday (or Saturday) morning. Perhaps the things that made some of us leave the church are the very things that made some of them become...
...religious side the present Church-State struggle has dealt a final blow to the Erastian principle of "Cuius regio, cius religio" of the German Reformation, which has now proved an unwelcome boomerang to Protestants. Christian principles and German liberties depend on an independent Church, holding to dogmatic beliefs diametrically opposed to the religious creed of Nazidom. It is interesting to note that the liberal elements both in the Church and State have completely succumbed to political pressure, and that only the Roman Catholic and "Confessional" Churches, firm in their convictions, remain in open conflict with the government. The Christian Church...
...Even a superficial examination of the facts," says the Vatican White Book, "is sufficient to show Lord Strickland's Erastian mentality and policy...
Informed by a Daily Mail reporter in London that he had been called an "Erasdan," Baron Strickland (who hurried to England a fortnight ago to consult with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald) appeared grossly insulted. Being a Catholic himself, he knows what it means to be called an "Erastian...
...criticism of my 'Erastian mentality,' " said he, "I certainly admit no supremacy of the Church in any save religious matters. You may call me by what name you like. The Maltese situation is not merely a religious one. It goes far deeper than that. It is an international...
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