Antilegalism

Quick meaning: Antilegalism is a noun meaning (religion, theology) A belief that salvation is attained or maintained not just by adherence to the requirements of moral law, but also by worship, faith, or grace.

Meaning

(religion, theology) A belief that salvation is attained or maintained not just by adherence to the requirements of moral law, but also by worship, faith, or grace.

More Meanings

1. (political philosophy) An opposition to slavishly following the law, especially the letter of the law versus the spirit of the law; sometimes also an attitude that questions the legitimacy of the legal system and the judicial infrastructure.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: nonlegalism

Understanding antilegalism in this manner helps us to read French legal dramas in a different way.

For many commentatiors, antilegalism is a characteristic trait of Hegelianism, which thus finds itself far from the dominant opinion within postrevolutionary political philosophy, which saw rights as the inalienable condition of political freedom.

In this coinage of the great apostle extremes meet; legalism and antilegalism; legalism in so far as it implies that God, as the Judaists contended demanded righteousness from all, antilegalism in so fare as it implies that the righteousness which God demands he at the same time bestows.

Word Forms

• anti-legalism

Synonyms for antilegalism

Depending on context, synonyms include antinomianism, antinomism, solifidianism, nonlegalism.

Antonyms for antilegalism

Common opposites include legalism, nomism.

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