Showing posts with label L. Show all posts
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Friday, April 10, 2015

Lollardy

Lollards were a heretical reform movement that arose in England in the 14th century that lingered until the English Reformation. Lollards were followers of John Wycliffe. The main tenets included:

Christianity should be based on the Bible as much as possible, therefore practices not found in scripture should be eliminated;
The laity should have access to the Bible in the vernacular;
Authority for interpretations rests in individuals, not with the Church;
A denial of the doctrine of transubstantiation;
A belief in predestination rather than justification by works, and that there was an invisible "Church of the Saved" which differed from the visible Catholic Church;
A belief in a lay priesthood and a denial of the efficacy of confession or clerical celibacy

Friday, April 3, 2015

Litany

A prayer that is made up of a series of petitions to God, in which a minister intones each petition, and the people respond.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Latitudinarian

In the 17th century, a churchman who supported the episcopal governance and worship of the Church of England, but who denied that these forms were ordained by or derived their authority from God.

Originally applied to the Cambridge Platonists, they believed that reason should be used to establish church doctrine over reliance upon tradition alone, which caused the conservative party to view them as unorthodox.

They accepted tradition, but allowed for latitude on other teachings based on reason, hence the name.

Similar to the Broad Church movement of the 19th century.