Erastianism

Doctrine of the Church's subordination to the State. Erastus, Erasmus. or Liebler, THOMAS. M.D., 1524-1583. Swi scholar, prof. of Medicine at Heidelberg 1558, and Basel 1580. A Zwinglian, he was excommunicated at Geneva as a Socinian 1570, and restored 1575. His doctrine of State supremacy over the Church was held in the interest of toleration, and found many adherents in England and elsewhere. His book was circulated in MS. 1568, pub. 1589, and tr. 1659 as The Nullity of Church Censures . Selden and others urged his opinions in the Westminster A embly. Eratosthenes, 276–196 B.C. B. at Cyrene. Librarian of the Alexandrian Museum; one of the most learned of the Greeks. He wrote upon astronomy, chronology, history and grammar, and computed the earth's circumference by a new and correct method.