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However, one feature of his formulations does suggest the rigorist view.

A rigorist for ecclesiastical law would have found much to object to in this procedure.

We may call this the rigorist interpretation or version of utilitarianism.

This was dear to the rigorist ascetics who crowded into the order, although they remained a minority within it.

His other nickname is 'the rigorist'.

Heraclius, head of the rigorist faction, opposed readmission of the lapsed.

Kallistos Ware considers this the "rigorist" position within the Orthodox Church.

'Tor that matter, he's a rigorist on just about every- thing-Maximum Ruhollah, we call him out here."

Marcellus, a rigorist, purged all mention of Marcellinus from church records, and removed his name from the official list of bishops.

The Jesuits in their turn obtained a condemnation of 31 rigorist propositions allegedly taught by the Leuven professors in 1713.

However, this "liberal" view is vehemently opposed by those Eastern Orthodox whom Cunliffe-Jones identifies as holding a "rigorist" view.

Hubert Cunliffe-Jones identifies two opposing views among Eastern Orthodox regarding the Filioque: a "liberal" view and a "rigorist" view.

Secundus, Primate of Numidia and Bishop of Tigisi, was presently invited to Carthage by the rigorist party.

Edmund Landau: The Master Rigorist by Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights, page 192.

Tutiorism was adopted by the Jansenists, and the Irish Jansenist theologian John Sinnichius (1603-1666), was the foremost defender of the Rigorist doctrines.

In Muhlenberg's Anglican/Episcopal thinking, the "Law of God" meant a pattern or blueprint rather than a rigorist or legalistic approach to proper living in a scholastic brotherhood.

Proculus, the metropolitan of Marseille, and the metropolitans of Vienne and Gallia Narbonensis were also followers of the rigorist tradition for which Priscillian had died.

He later advised in a sermon that priests must apply a pastoral approach that is "neither rigorist nor lax" in counselling Catholics who "don't live according to [God's] master plan".

A subtle tract, the Shepherd of Hermas, early in the second century sought to undermine the rigorist position as inhuman, yet without surrendering the church's obligation to maintain moral standards among its members.

Many in the "rigorist" camp consider the Filioque to have resulted in the role of the Holy Spirit being underestimated by the Western Church and thus leading to serious doctrinal error.

Tertullian was a determined advocate of strict discipline and an austere code of practise, and like many of the African fathers, one of the leading representatives of the rigorist element in the early Church.

However, on the second, more rigorist, view, her action would turn out to be wrong, should it be true that with even more effort she could have relieved still more suffering, or caused just a little more happiness (without countervailing harm).

Because the poor were preserved for virtue by their incapacity to do evil and the old rich by their lack of need or their antipathy to new economic methods, the rigorist's censure was largely directed against the new rich.

One can then say that it is only things of the second sort which count as things his action prevented, when one is calculating its good and bad effects, and thus distinguish Bentham's criterion of rightness and wrongness from a rigorist one.

In the Fundamentum he ably defended the doctrine of probabilism and in the Regula morum refuted the objections brought against his first work by the Dominican Concina, the Jesuit Miguel de Elizalde (1617-1678) and other exponents of the Rigorist School.