Antosiandrians

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Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [1]

A sect of rigid Lutherans who opposed the doctrine of Osiander relating to justification. These are otherwise denominated Osiandromastiges. The Antosiandrians deny that man is made just, with that justice wherewith God himself is just; that is, they assert that he is not made essentially but only imputatively just; or that he is not really made just, but only pronounced so.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]

a term applied to Melancthon and other Lutherans who opposed the doctrines of Andreas Osiander (q.v.). (See Osiandrians).

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