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Disappointed by his loss to Cornelius in the Papal election of 251, the Roman priest Novatian became head of the rigorist faction that condemned leniency to those who had evaded martyrdom, and was consecrated as the rival Bishop of Rome. Although he admirably exemplified the Protestant penchant for Greek studies, Sponde was also well aware that his Homeric enthusiasm could be construed by some of his rigorist coreligionists as a pernicious diversion from Calvinist faith and from the study of the Bible. By the late 1940s, set resolutely against the momentum of postwar pluralism, Feeney began promoting a rigorist ecclesiology in which only Catholics could be saved. |
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