| 释义 |
exemplarist, n. (and a.)|ɛgˈzɛmplərɪst|
[f. prec. + -ist.]
One who believes in or advocates exemplarism. Also as adj.
1926K. E. Kirk in E. G. Selwyn Ess. Cath. & Crit. viii. 256 If we must have a name for theories of this type, let us..call them ‘exemplarist’—because their emphasis is upon the moral value of Christ's example. Ibid. 275 A somewhat confused criticism of the appeal to gratitude in Exemplarist theories, based on the fact that some Exemplarists had forgotten to emphasise the objective value of an example of loyalty. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Feb. 166/3 But his book shows him to be very far from the ‘exemplarist’ type of thought about the Atonement which dominated the nineteenth century. 1958Times 19 Apr. 8/4 To help the ‘exemplarists’ to enter into the necessity of Christ being a sacrifice as well as an example. |