Abjurantism is a Hosian tradition that emerged from the Abjuration in the 16th century, a period of disagreement between Abjurants and the Holy Apostolic Hosian Church of Terra. Alongside the Aurorian Patriarchal Church, the Terran Patriarchal Church and Bishopalism, it is one of the four major Hosian denominations.
History[]
In the 16th century, many groups began to resent the power and abuses of the various patriarchs, and, when their initial attempts to reform the Holy Apostolic Hosian Church of Terra were rejected, they created their own churches, independent of patriarchal authority. This movement for independence was spurred by the publishing of the "Fifteen Articles of Abjuration", a document created by John Martyn in the 16th century Holy Luthorian Empire, renouncing the authority of the Arch-Patriarch. The Articles of Abjuration led to the creation of a number of movements and churches, with varying degrees of radicalism, which split from the Holy Apostolic Hosian Church of Terra while accepting several core beliefs, called the Abjurant Churches.
The Abjurant Churches suffered numerous splits and schisms throughout the centuries. The most important of this schisms is between the Confessional Churches, which accept the "Northminster Confession" of 1519, and retain many Patriarchal elements, and the much more radical Ameliorate Churches, created in 1523 around the ideas of Gert van Tassel.