Sentences with phrase «biblicist terms»

The Reformers spoke in biblicist terms when trying to rid Christendom of what they identified as Catholic errors, but biblicism became a less functional standard once Protestants began to disagree among themselves about the meaning of the Bible.

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Encyclopedia articles about Calvin feature a fairly predictable cluster of terms still associated with his name: strict, moralistic, legalistic, authoritarian, rigorous, rigid, severe, cold, logical, systematic, biblicist, theocratic, dictatorial and austere.
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