Meanings
- dateduncountableCatholicismSupport for Ignaz von Döllinger, a 19th-century German Catholic theologian who rejected papal infallibility.
It will be only under the pressure of hard necessity that Döllingerism will ever consent to regard itself as a German sect.
1872 August 10, “Döllinger at the Munich Jubilee”, in The Spectator, volume 45, number 2302, page 10062 more examples
There is nothing new in Döllingerism. It is the old story, as old as human shame and sin, of the vanity which is a law to itself, and the pride which will not stoop to obey.
1874, Thomas William Marshall, Protestant Journalism, page 156The Vatican Council, through its definition of the doctrine of Papal Infallibility, had stirred up a muddy undercurrent of heretical and schismatic feeling among certain elements of the intellectuals, and Döllingerism was quite rampant, particularly in university sections.
1933, Celestine N. Bittle, A Romance of Lady Poverty: The History of the Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order in the United States, page 224
Origin
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