See also:

• ANTINOMIANS (Gr. avri, against, v6 tos, law)

ANTINOMIANS (Gr. avri, against, v6 tos, See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law)  , a See also:

• TERM

term apparently coined by See also:

• LUTHER, MARTIN (1483-1546)

Luther to stigmatize Johannes See also:

• AGRICOLA (originally SCHNEIDER, then SCHNITTER), JOHANNES (1494-1566)
• AGRICOLA (the Latinized form of the name BAUER), GEORG (1490-1555)
• AGRICOLA, CHRISTOPH LUDWIG (1667-1719)
• AGRICOLA, GNAEUS JULIUS (A.D. 37-93)
• AGRICOLA, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (1720-1774)
• AGRICOLA, MARTIN (c. 1500-1556)
• AGRICOLA, RODOLPHUS (properly ROELOF HUYSMANN) (1443-1485)

Agricola (q.v.) and his following, indicating an See also:

• INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation of the See also:

• ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-thesis between See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law and See also:

• GOSPEL (O. Eng. godspel, i.e. good news, a translation of Lat. bona annuntiatio, or evangelium, Gr. evayyeXwv; cf. Goth. iu spillon, " to announce good news," Ulfilas' translation of the Greek, from iu, that which is good, and spellon to announce)

gospel, recurrent from the earliest times . Christians being released, in important particulars, from conformity to the Old Testament polity as a whole, a real difficulty attended the See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement of the limits and the immediate authority of the See also:

• REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder, known vaguely as the moral law . Indications are not wanting that St See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul's See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine of See also:

• JUSTIFICATION

justification by faith was, in his own See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, mistaken or perverted in the interests of immoral See also:

• LICENCE (through the French from Lat. licentia, licere, to be lawful)

licence . Gnostic sects approached the question in two ways . Marcionites, named by See also:

• CLEMENT (Lat. Clemens, i.e. merciful; Gr. K)4gs)
• CLEMENT, FRANCOIS (1714-1793)
• CLEMENT, JACQUES (1567-1589)

Clement of See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria Antitactae (revolters against theDemiurge) held the Old Testament See also:

• ECONOMY

economy to be throughout tainted by its source; but they are not accused of licentiousness . Manichaeans, again, holding their spiritual being to be unaffected by the See also:

• ACTION

action of See also:

• MATTER

matter, regarded carnal sins as being, at worst, forms of bodily disease . Kindred to this latter view was the position of sundry sects of See also:

• ENGLISH

English fanatics during the See also:

• COMMONWEALTH

Commonwealth, who denied that an elect See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person sinned, even when committing acts in themselves See also:

• GROSS

gross and evil . Different from either of these was the Antinomianism charged by Luther against Agricola . Its starting-point was a dispute with See also:

• MELANCHTHON, FHILIPP (1497–155o)

Melanchthon in 1527 as to the relation between repentance and faith . Melanchthon urged that repentance must precede faith, and that knowledge of the moral law is needed to produce repentance . Agricola gave the initial See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place to faith, maintaining that repentance is the See also:

• WORK

work, not of law, but of the gospel-given knowledge of the love of See also:

• GOD

God . The resulting Antinomian controversy (the only one within the Lutheran See also:

• BODY

body in Luther's lifetime) is not remarkable for the precision or the moderation of the combatants on either See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side .

Agricola was apparently satisfied in See also:

• CONFERENCE

conference with Luther and Melanchthon at See also:

• TORGAU

Torgau, See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1527 . His eighteen Positiones of 1537 revived the II controversy and made it acute . See also:

• RANDOM (older forms randon, randrun; from the French, cf. randir, to run quickly, impetuously; generally taken to be of Teutonic origin and connected with Ger. Rand, edge, brim, the idea being possibly of a brimming river)

Random as are some of his statements, he was consistent in two See also:

• OBJECTS

objects: (I) in the See also:

• INTEREST

interest of solifidian doctrine, to place the rejection of the See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic doctrine of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• WORKS

works on a sure ground; (2) in the interest of the New Testament, to find all needful guidance for See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty in its principles, if not in its precepts . From the latter See also:

• PART

part of the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century charges of Antinomianism have frequently been directed against Calvinists, on the ground of their disparagement of " deadly doing " and of " legal See also:

• PREACHING (Fr. preecher, from Lat. praedicare, to proclaim)

preaching." The virulent controversy between Arminian and Calvinistic Methodists produced as its ablest outcome See also:

• FLETCHER, ALICE CUNNINGHAM (1845– )
• FLETCHER, ANDREW
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1548-1611)
• FLETCHER, GILES (c. 1584-1623)
• FLETCHER, JOHN WILLIAM (1729-1785)
• FLETCHER, PHINEAS (1582-1650)

Fletcher's Checks to Antinomianism (1771–1975) . See G . Kawerau, in A . Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1896); Riess, in I . Goschler's Dict . Encydop. de la theol. cath . (1858); J . H . See also:

• BLUNT, JOHN HENRY (1823–1884)
• BLUNT, JOHN JAMES (1794–1855)
• BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN (184o— )

Blunt .

Dict. of Doct. and Hist . Theol . (1872); J . C . L . See also:

• GIESELER, JOHANN KARL LUDWIG (1792–1854)

Gieseler, Ch . Hist . (New See also:

• YORK
• YORK (HOUSE OF)
• YORK, EDMUND OF LANGLEY, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
• YORK, EDWARD
• YORK, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
• YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

York ed . 1868, vol. iv.) .