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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1710, 1876, 1934
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BOURIGNONISM, n. Also burroignionisme (Mry. 1704 W. Cramond Synod Records (1906) 182). The religious doctrines of an emotional and visionary nature proclaimed by Antoinette Bourignon, a French mystic of the 17th c., which were popular among the Episcopalians and Jacobites of North-East Scot. at the beginning of the 18th c. They were denounced by various General Assemblies of the period as heresies. Hence Bourignonist. Hist.Sc. 1710 Acts Gen. Assembly 10:
The gross Heresies and Errors, going under the Name of Bourignionism. . . . All Presbyteries, in whose Bounds there are any Societies of Bourignionists. Sc. 1876 Encycl. Britannica IV. 177:
Bourignianism is amongst the heretical sects which the clergy of the Church of Scotland are taken bound to “disown” at their ordination. Sc. 1934 G. D. Henderson Mystics N.E. (S.C.) 35:
It was for Bourignonism that he [George Garden of Aberdeen] was deposed from the Ministry of the Church of Scotland, and he did more than anyone else to disseminate knowledge of Bourignonist ideas.
