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How to pronounce latitudinarian in English?

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Synonyms free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical
Derivation latitude
Type Words
Type of liberal, liberalist, progressive

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Thus, latitudinarian Anglicans were handed control of the Church of England.
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Sermons reflects Blair's position as a member of the moderate or latitudinarian party.
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Good examples of the latitudinarian philosophy were found among the Cambridge Platonists.
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There is also a long history of more liberal or latitudinarian views.
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Hooker worked from Thomas Aquinas, but he adapted scholastic thought in a latitudinarian manner.
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Later, the latitudinarian position was called Broad church.
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He maintained radical views and the 18th century tradition of liberal and latitudinarian criticism of Biblical Scripture.
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While always officially opposed, the latitudinarian philosophy was, nevertheless, dominant in the 18th century in England.
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Broad church is generally used for Anglicans whose churchmanship is somewhere between the low and high traditions and is much the same as the tradition historically called latitudinarian.
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  • A person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
  • Free-thinking: unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion)
  • 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 ...
  • (Latitudinarianism (philosophy)) Latitudinarianism, in at least one area of contemporary philosophy, is a position concerning de dicto and de re (propositional) attitudes. ...
  • (LATITUDINARIANISM) the progressive and tolerant approach to religion associated with a group of late seventeenth-century Church of England notables, including John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury; Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester; Simon Patrick, Bishop of Chichester and Ely; ...