Latitudinarian was initially a pejorative term applied to a group of 17th-century English theologians who believed in conforming to official
Church of England practices but who felt that matters of doctrine, liturgical practice, and ecclesiastical organization were of relatively little importance. Good examples of the latitudinarian philosophy were found among the
Cambridge Platonists and Sir
Thomas Browne in his
Religio Medici. Additionally, the term has been ascribed to ministers of the Scottish Episcopal Church in Scotland who were educated at the Episcopal sympathizing universities at
Aberdeen and
St Andrews and that broadly subscribed to their moderate Anglican English counterparts.