latitudinarian

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Latitudinarian opinions revived, and the church was regarded merely as a human institution.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various

The Dean took it with smiles; but then the Dean was a Latitudinarian.

From The Marriage of William Ashe by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The Latitudinarian party, whose faults and temptations lay in a very opposite direction, was very strong.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)

On almost every question, however, relating either to ecclesiastical polity or to the ceremonial of public worship, the Puritan Low Churchman and the Latitudinarian Low Churchman were perfectly agreed.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The Latitudinarian section of the Church of England won its chief fame, during the years that immediately followed the Revolution of 1688, by its activity in behalf of ecclesiastical comprehension and religious liberty.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)