Erastian

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E`ras´tian

(Eccl. Hist.) One of the followers of Thomas Erastus, a German physician and theologian of the 16th century. He held that the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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supplemented the authority of the propertied over the people.' (19) In historical terms, this arrangement brokered an uneasy compromise between the Erastian or Lutheran view that the government of the church belonged to the civil magistrate, and the High Church (quasi-Catholic) claim that the church possessed an apostolic authority independent of the secular state.