Flacians

Charles Buck Theological Dictionary

The followers of Matthias Flacius Illlyricus, who flourished in the sixteenth century. He taught that original sin is the very substance of human nature; and that the fall of man was an event which extinguished in the human mind every virtuous tendency, every noble faculty, and left nothing behind it but universal darkness and corruption.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a name given to those who adhered, in the controversies among the German reformers, to Matthias Flacius (q.v.).