theologicum

The strongest and best was in old times called theologicum, because it was had from the clergy and religious men, to whose houses the laity sent their bottles to be filled, sure that the religious would neither drink nor be served with the worst; for the merchant would have thought his soul should have gone straightway to the devil if he had sent them any but the best.

Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

The strongest and best was in old times called theologicum, because it was had from the clergy and religious men, to whose houses the laity sent their bottles to be filled, sure that the religious would neither drink nor be served with the worst; for the merchant would have thought his soul should have gone straightway to the devil if he had sent them any but the best.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

The strongest and best was in old times called theologicum, because it was had from the clergy and religious men, to whose houses the laity sent their bottles to be filled, sure that the religious would neither drink nor be served with the worst; for the merchant would have thought his soul should have gone straightway to the devil if he had sent them any but the best.

For Whom Shakespeare Wrote Charles Dudley Warner 1864

As Ernest Campbell Mossner remarks: “The Deists were long subjected to the odium theologicum and the historians of the movement have almost without exception downgraded or slandered them both socially as well as intellectually since the time of John Leland in the eighteenth century.”

Anthony Collins Uzgalis, William 2009

In view also of the peculiar bitterness of the odium theologicum, perhaps it may be permitted me to say at the outset that I have no prejudice on this subject.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

The only case in which the higher ground has been taken on principle and maintained with consistency, by any but an individual here and there, is that of religious belief: a case instructive in many ways, and not least so as forming a most striking instance of the fallibility of what is called the moral sense: for the odium theologicum, in a sincere bigot, is one of the most unequivocal cases of moral feeling.

On Liberty 2002

The religious hatred called odium theologicum has long been an instrument for gaining power and property, whether in local politics or in real estate speculation.

The Deadlocked City Elon, Amos 2001

Every now and then a thump, a squeak, and a wail of suppressed agony comes out of the academy; but mostly the odium theologicum expresses itself in the classroom, at the department meeting, and by pointedly ignoring in public the rogues of the opposite party.

Lucy and Lucifer Adams, Robert M. 1990

Like medieval schismatics, each side has called the other heretic, using the terms appropriate to convey odium theologicum in a secular movement.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas R. K. KINDERSLEY 1968

[Goethe's] Faust remains for the modern world the final form of the legend out of which it grew, the magnificent expression of the broad humanism which, even in spheres accounted orthodox, has tended to replace the peculiar studium theologicum which inspired the early Faust-books

Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968