Eradicationism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The belief that something (often disease or a cultural trait) must be eliminated. uncountable
  2. 2
    Strict holiness; a radical, Wesleyan holiness teaching that considers that sin is or will be completely eliminated from true believers (originally used only by opponents) derogatory, uncountable

    "The root error of eradicationism of the flesh has room to grow only in the false conception of "flesh," as a mere tendency to evil quite apart from the natural body."

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"The root error of eradicationism of the flesh has room to grow only in the false conception of "flesh," as a mere tendency to evil quite apart from the natural body."

Etymology

From eradication + -ism. Coined around 1900 by people from the circle of Dwight L. Moody.

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