But stark rigorism did not always have its way.

(3) To scepticism may be added moral rigorism as a source of hostility to miracles.

This implication of rigorism seems a bit absurd.

Like many who accent moral rigorism because they lack practical programmes, Peter and his ilk blamed others than themselves.

An emphasis on ethical rigorism and asceticism.

He opposed sterile legalism and strict rigorism.

Moggach applies the idea of republican rigorism, introduced by other historians of political thought, to outline these solutions.

---- Significant though the moral rigorism of churchmen was, it could not alone have effected this change.

Against rigorism, is the sense that it is rather absurd to lump all who are not utilitarian saints with actual wrongdoers.

Perhaps more sinister is Augustine's contact with authoritarian elements in Spain, already a centre of Christian rigorism and orthodox violence.

Actually, the debate between rigorism and our original less rigorist version of utilitarianism has a morally earnest character alien to Bentham.

Later in life, Tertullian joined the Montanists, a heretical sect that appealed to his rigorism.

(39) Even the cardinals, the princes of the church, occasionally evoke sympathy as they confronted the self-righteous rigorism of the regular clergy.

He is credited with the position of Aequiprobablism, which avoided Jansenist rigorism as well as laxism and simple probablism.

Quite inadvertently, the employment of moral rigorism combined with economic and social utopianism was- if not overdone-a good way of getting a share of the profits.

The Donatists held that such a crime, after the forgiveness of Baptism, disqualified one for leadership in the Church, a position of extreme rigorism.

Wulfstan's homilies are concerned only with the "bare bones, but these he invests with a sense of urgency of moral or legal rigorism in a time of great danger".

He was further accused of rigorism in his dealing with penitents, as well as making unfair criticisms of both the clergy and of midwives in his writings on Baptism.

Thomas Davidson taught a philosophy called "apeirotheism", a "form of pluralistic idealism...coupled with a stern ethical rigorism" which he defined as "a theory of Gods infinite in number."

The Jesuits particularly promoted this devotion to emphasize the compassion and overwhelming love of Christ for people, and to counteract the rigorism and spiritual pessimism of the Jansenists.

Tertullian denounced Christian doctrines he considered heretical, but it has been claimed that later in life he converted to Montanism, a heretical sect that appealed to his rigorism.

"Republican Rigorism and Emancipation in Bruno Bauer", The New Hegelians, edited by Douglas Moggach, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Due to his rigorism and to the formulations in those books justifying the "relaxed moral" concerning confession, the public generally considered that he had written against his thought by fidelity to his jesuit order.

Callistus also offended Hippolytus' moral rigorism by asserting that the power of the keys entrusted by the Lord to his church did not exclude authority to restore to communion penitent adulterers.

A new rigorism was brought into the observance of Lord's Day among the 17th-century Puritans of England and Scotland, in reaction to the laxity with which Sunday observance was customarily kept.