Nonadorantism

The Nonadorantismus (see. Latin : adoro or adoratio ≈ worship ) means a Christological position, after an invocation and adoration of Jesus Christ is rejected. Nonadorantist positions can be found especially in anti-Trinitarian unitarianism . Well-known representatives here included Franz Davidis and Szymon Budny . Budny argued that Jesus himself did not have a preexisting divine nature and that he taught his disciples to pray to God but not to himself. Other Unitarians, such as Marcin Czechowic , spoke of Christ's role as mediator with the Father, which justifies an invocation of Christ. Within the Polish Brothers in the 1570s, a nonadorantist party loyal to the state (centered in Lithuania) and a Christocentric-pacifist party (centered in Rakau) faced each other. Also within the Unitarian Church of Transylvania there was a dispute between Davidis and Giorgio Biandrata , who refused to join Davidis' nonadorantism. Some of the Transylvanian Nonadoranten around Davidis later approached Jewish theology and formed the group of Judaizanten and Sabbatarier , which can be distinguished from the Transylvanian Unitarians .

Nonadorantist positions can also be found later with James Freeman , who can be seen as a founding figure of North American Unitarianism.

Individual evidence

^ Stefan Fleischman: Szymon Budny. A theological portrait of the Polish-Belarusian humanist and Unitarian (approx. 1530–1593) . Böhlau, Wien et al. 2006, ISBN 3-412-04306-0 , pp. 133-134 (= building blocks for Slavic philology and cultural history . Series A: "Slavic research". NF vol. 53) (also: Würzburg, University, dissertation , 2004).
^ Olaf Reese: Lutheran metaphysics in dispute . Göttingen 2008, p. 95 (Dissertation from the University of Göttingen, 2009; digitized version (PDF; 2.8 MB) ).
↑ Walter Daugsch : Tolerance in the Principality of Transylvania. Political and social prerequisites for religious legislation in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: »Church in the East. Studies on Eastern European Church History and Church Studies «. Vol. 26, 1983, ISSN 0453-9273 , pp. 35-72, here p. 50.

[1] Stefan Fleischman: Szymon Budny. A theological portrait of the Polish-Belarusian humanist and Unitarian (approx. 1530–1593) . Böhlau, Wien et al. 2006, ISBN 3-412-04306-0 , pp. 133-134 (= building blocks for Slavic philology and cultural history . Series A: "Slavic research". NF vol. 53) (also: Würzburg, University, dissertation , 2004).

[2] Olaf Reese: Lutheran metaphysics in dispute . Göttingen 2008, p. 95 (Dissertation from the University of Göttingen, 2009; digitized version (PDF; 2.8 MB) ).

[3] Walter Daugsch : Tolerance in the Principality of Transylvania. Political and social prerequisites for religious legislation in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: »Church in the East. Studies on Eastern European Church History and Church Studies «. Vol. 26, 1983, ISSN 0453-9273 , pp. 35-72, here p. 50.