Soc in i an ism (sosinianizm)

[ is in theological usage a general one, and includes a considerable variety of opinion. The Socinians believe that Christ was a man, miraculously conceived and divinely endowed, and thus entitled to honor and reverence, but not to divine worship; that the object of his death was to perfect and complete his example and to prepare the way for his resurrection, the nece ary historical basis of Christianity; that baptism is a declarative rite merely, and the Lord's Supper merely commemorative; that divine grace is general and exerted through the means of not special and personally efficacious; that the Holy Spirit is not a distinct person, but the divine energy; that the authority of Scripture is subordinate to that of the reason; that the soul is pure by nature, though contaminated by evil example and teaching from a very early age; and that salvation consists in accepting Christ's teaching and following his example. The Socinians thus occupy theologically a midway position between the Arians, who main tain the divinity of Jesus Christ, but deny that he is coequal with the Father, and the Humanitarians, who deny his supernatural character altogether. Socinianize (so-sin'i-an-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. Soc in i an i zed, ppr. Soc in i an i zing. [ anise. I cannot be ordained before I have subscribed and taken some oaths. Neither of which will pa very well, if I am ever so little Popishly inclined or Soc in i an is'd . Tom Brown , Works, I. 4. ( Davies .) Hayward, Letters, I. ii. ( Encyc . Dict .) sociogeny (so-shi-oj'e-ni), n. [L. socius , a These envied ladies have no more chance of establishing themselves in society than the benighted squire's wife in Somersets hire, who reads of their doings in the Morn. ing Post. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxxvii. As to society in 1837, contemporary commentators differ. For, according to some, society was always gambling, running away with each other's wives, causing and committing scandals, or whispering them; the men were spend thrifts and profligates, the women extravagant and heart le . W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 110. 6. An organized a ociation of persons united for the promotion of some common purpose or object, whether religious, benevolent, literary, scientific, political, convivial, or other; an a ociation for pleasure, profit, or usefulne ; a social union; a partnership; a club: as, the Society of Friends; the Society of the Cincinnati; a sewing society; a friendly society. In this sense the Church is always a visible society men; not an a embly, but a society. of of Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iii. 1. It is now near two hundred years since the Society Quakers denied the authority of the rite altogether, and gave good reasons for disusing it. Emerson, The Lord's Supper. Specifically-7. In eccles. law, in some of the United States, the corporation or secular body organized pursuant to law with power to sue and be sued, and to hold and administer all the temporalities of a religious society or church, as distinguished from the body of communicants or members united bya confe ion of faith. When so used in this specific sense, members of the so those who entitled under the law to vote for trustees usually adults who have been stated attendants for one year and have contributed to the support of the organization according to its usages, while members of the church are those who have entered into a religious covenant with one another. To a considerable extent both bodies are the same persons acting in different capacities. Under the law in some jurisdictions, and in some denominations in all jurisdictions, there is no such dis companion (see social), + Gr. -γένεια, production: see- geny.] The science of the origin or genesis of society.