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Erastianism |
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ErastianismBelief that the church should be subordinated to the state. The name is derived from Thomas Erastus (1534-1583), a Swiss-German theologian and opponent of Calvinism, who maintained in his writings that the church should not have the power of excluding people as a punishment for sin. |
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