The Christology commonly called " Socinian " ( after Fausto Sozzini, one of the founders of Unitarian theology ), refers to the belief that Jesus Christ began his life when he was born as a human.

Socinian theology, as summarised in the Racovian Catechism, rejected the views of orthodox Christian theology on God's knowledge, on the doctrine of the Trinity and the divinity of Christ, and on soteriology.

Later writers such as Archibald Alexander Hodge ( 1823 – 1886 ) asserted that Socinian theology was rooted in skepticism.

Socinian ideas continued to have significant influence on Unitarians in England throughout the entire period of their development.

In 1817, he met Robert Haldane at Geneva, and continued his movement against the Socinian tendencies then prevalent in that city.

This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.

* August 23 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish Socinian theologist ( d. 1675 )

* May 18 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish Socinian theologist ( b. 1623 )

Biddle's followers had very close relations with the Polish Socinian family of Crellius ( aka Spinowski ).

The Polish arm of the Christadelphians use the name Bracia w Chrystusie in conscious echo of Socinian precedents.

* Socinian. org Polish Socinians: from the Polish Socinians to the American Constitution, Marian Hillar, article from A Journal from the Radical Reformation, A Testimony to Biblical Unitarianism, Vol.

In 1689 Limborch edited the compilation of Socinian Samuel Przypkowski's works in the last volume of the Bibliotheca antitrinitariorum or Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum of the Polish Brethren.

Stanisław Lubieniecki (, also Lubiniezky or Lubyenyetsky ) ( b. August 23, 1623 in Raków, Kielce County-May 18, 1675 in Hamburg ) was a Polish Socinian theologist, historian, astronomer, and writer.

The Socinian Racovian Academy ( Polish Akademia Rakowska ) was founded in 1602 by Jakub Sienieński ( 1568 – 1639 ).

* Piotr of Goniądz ( Polish Piotr z Goniądza ), Socinian

* Those groups with early Unitarian or Socinian Christology such as Christadelphians and the Church of God General Conference identify the Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament much as Jews do, simply as angels.

Then a rumour began that Wettstein's projected text would take the Socinian side in the case of such passages as i Timothy iii.

The calling of the group " Socinian " in England is more a result of the place given to Sozzini's writings in the publishing of his grandson Andrzej Wiszowaty Sr. in Amsterdam a century later than any role of active leadership in Sozzini's life — especially given that without submitting to baptism he could never formally join the church that later bore his name abroad.

* Andrzej Wiszowaty, Socinian

* Christadelphians, Church of God General Conference and other " Biblical Unitarians " are typically Socinian in their Christology, not Arian.

Nevertheless, all the distinctive Christadelphian doctrines, down to interpretations of specific verses, can be found particularly among 16th century Socinian writers ( e. g. the rejection of the doctrines of the trinity, pre-existence of Christ, immortal souls, a literal hell of fire, original sin ) Christian Thomasius ( 1704 ), Arthur Ashley Sykes ( 1737 ), Nathaniel Lardner ( 1742 ), Dr. Richard Mead ( 1755 ), Hugh Farmer ( at least in the account of Christ's temptation ; 1761 ), William Ashdowne ( 1791 ), John Simpson ( 1804 ) and John Epps ( 1842 )

In 1643-1644 Mersenne also corresponded with the German Socinian Marcin Ruar concerning the Copernican ideas of Pierre Gassendi, finding Ruar already a supporter of Gassendi's position.

The name " Socinian " only started to be used in Holland and England as the Latin publications were circulated among early Arminians, Remonstrants, Dissenters, and early English Unitarians from the 1610s onward.

Sources in the 18th and 19th century frequently attributed the term " Socinian " anachronistically, using it to refer to ideas which covered a much wider range from the narrowly defined position of the Racovian catechisms and library.

By 1676 there were at least three Socinian meeting houses in London, even if the Act of Toleration of 1689 saw Socinians and Catholics excluded from official recognition.

Capito was always more concerned for the " unity of the spirit " than for dogmatic formularies, and from his endeavours to conciliate the Lutheran and Zwinglian parties in regard to the sacraments, he seems to have incurred the suspicions of his own friends ; while from his intimacy with Martin Cellarius and other divines of the Socinian school he drew on himself the charge of Arianism.

This view was essentially Socinian.

In 1643 Mersenne also tried to garner support from the German Socinian and advocate of religious tolerance Marcin Ruar.

In 1757 Wesley described Taylor's views as ‘ old deism in a new dress .’ Job Orton remarked ( 1778 ) that ‘ he had to the last a great deal of the puritan in him .’ Orton's earlier guess ( 1771 ), adopted by Walter Wilson, that Taylor had become a Socinian, is dismissed as groundless by Alexander Gordon in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Indeed, Price's opinions would seem to have been rather Arian than Socinian.

For the most part, Martineau escaped the active and, on the whole, belittling period of orthodox Trinitarian churches against Unitarians, the " Socinian " controversy.

John Aubrey attributed to Falkland the title " the first Socinian in England " but later gave that title to John Hales.

* April 27-Jeremias Felbinger, German Socinian writer ( died c. 1690 )

However, one of his fellow-apprentices was Socinian ( a Unitarian sect that denied the divinity of Christ ), and in order better to argue, Sharp taught himself Greek.

* Valentinus Smalcius ( 1572 – 1622 ), German Socinian theologian

of London ( 1658 -), Samuel Crellius ( 1660 – 1747 ) and Paweł Crell-Spinowski ( 1677 -), as well as his great-grandsons in Georgia, United States, were all proponents of Socinian views.

" Abernethy and his associates sowed the seeds of the struggle ( 1821 – 1840 ) in which, under the leadership of Dr Henry Cooke, the Arian and Socinian elements of the Irish Presbyterian Church were thrown out.

* Grzegorz Paweł z Brzezin ( Gregory Pauli of Brzeziny ), Socinian

He also published, in 1693, Twenty-Eight Propositions, by which the Doctrine of the Trinity is endeavoured to be explained, challenging with some success the Socinian position.

Acontius, an advocate of religious tolerance, was now stigmatised by Francis Cheynell as a ' sneaking Socinian '.

He was accused at various times by various persons of being an Arminian, Socinian, and Latitudinarian.

He took a small part in the Socinian controversy by publishing ( 1691 ) a Latin tract on the divinity of Christ.