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Rejecting the Sacraments and believing that all matter was evil, they held a moral doctrine of extreme rigorism, condemning marriage and the use of all animal products" (Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church). First, he traces the diversity of moral thought from laxism to rigorism (tutiorism), and especially the "moderate probabalist" position of Alphonsus Liguori. Such a policy, Saint Augustine retorted, would lead either to the wholesale evacuation of the churches or, worse, to a kind of moral rigorism and puritanism by which church officials would presume to discern exactly where the City of Man ends and the City of God begins--a task better left to the Eternal Judge. |
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