latitudinarian
adj.
tolerant, freethinking, broad minded (especially about religion)
n.
tolerant person, freethinker, open-minded person (especially about religion)
Latitudinarian
For this term as used in philosophy, see
Latitudinarianism (philosophy). Latitudinarian was initially a pejorative term applied to a group of 17th-century English
theologians who believed in conforming to official
Church of England practices but who felt that matters of
doctrine,
liturgical practice, and
ecclesiastical organization were of relatively little importance. In this, they built on
Richard Hooker's position, in
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, that God cares about the moral state of the individual
soul and that such things as church leadership are "things indifferent". However, they took the position far beyond Hooker's own and extended it to doctrinal matters. As a positive position, their stance was that human reason is a sufficient guide when combined with the
Holy Spirit for the determination of truth in doctrinal contests, and therefore that legal and doctrinal rulings that constrain reason and the freedom of the believer were neither necessary nor salutary. At the time, their position was referred to as
low church (in contrast to the
High church position). Later, the latitudinarian position was called
Broad church.
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latitudinarian
Noun
1. a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
(hypernym) liberal, progressive
(classification) religion, faith, religious belief
Adjective
1. unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)
(synonym) free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical
(similar) broad-minded
(classification) religion, faith, religious belief
Latitudinarian
(n.)
One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.
(n.)
One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy.
(n.)
A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed.
(a.)
Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.
(a.)
Lax in moral or religious principles.
(a.)
Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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A person who tolerates all religions or beliefs