Thomas Erastus

Thomas Erastus (September 7, 1524 – December 31, 1583) is a Swiss physician and theologian best known for a posthumously published work in which he argued that the sins of Christians should be punished by the state, and not by the church withholding the sacraments.

A generalization of this idea, that the state is supreme in church matters, is known somewhat misleadingly as Erastianism.

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