单词 | family of love |
释义 | > as lemmasFamily of Love 5. Theology. Chiefly with the and capital initial. In full Family of Love. A Christian sect, active in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, which held that religion consists chiefly in the exercise of love. Now historical.The sect was founded by Hendrik Niclaes in the Netherlands during the 1540s. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > familism > [noun] > person > collective Family of Love?1574 ?1574 C. Vitell tr. ‘Elidad’ Good & Fruitfull Exhort. Famelie of Loue sig. A5v The principall Elders and Fathers in the Famelie of Loue: which also shall vnderstand the Secreat-misterie of the Woorde and of the heauenlie Kingdom. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 79v When they shall here any of the Familie slide into any of these affirmations. 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. 75 The familie of love are so called, because..their love is so great, that they may joyn with any congregation. a1687 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) Schol. 568 Being lately informed by an Elder of the Family..that they of their Family that were regenerated..became Christs. 1710 J. Strype Hist. E. Grindal ii. v. 197 Hearing what the Bishop of Chichester could object against him [sc. the Archbishop], judged it nothing in effect, but only his Suspicion of this Mans being of that Family. 1790 G. Gregory Hist. Christian Church II. xvi. iv. 329 The Familists, or family of love in Holland, considered the dispensation by Christ as imperfect. 1885 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. III. 472 The rising Davidians, Davists, Georgists, or Family of Love, which..gave trouble in the reign of Elizabeth. 1912 C. Burrage Early Eng. Dissenters I. viii. 210 The Family of Love was certainly well known in England as an existing society during the reigns of James I and Charles I. 1994 C. W. Marsh Family of Love in Eng. Society, 1550–1630 138 Other protestant militants probably continued to despise the Family with venom. < as lemmas |
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