eradicationism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From eradication + -ism. Coined around 1900 by people from the circle of Dwight L. Moody.
Noun
[edit]eradicationism (uncountable)
- The belief that something (often disease or a cultural trait) must be eliminated.
- (Protestantism, derogatory) 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) [from early 20th c.]
- Antonyms: Keswickism, suppressionism
- 1901 October, Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, “Biblical Notes and Queries”, in Record of Christian Work, volume 20, page 832:
- 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.