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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ADIAPHORISM

See adiaphorous.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ADIAPHORISM

adiaphorism  [ˌædɪˈæfəˌrɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADIAPHORISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adiaphorism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ADIAPHORISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Adiaphora

Adiaphoron is a concept of Stoic philosophy that indicates things outside of moral law—that is, actions that morality neither mandates nor forbids. In Christianity, adiaphora are matters not regarded as essential to faith, but nevertheless as permissible for Christians or allowed in church. What is specifically considered adiaphora depends on the specific theology in view.

Definition of adiaphorism in the English dictionary

The definition of adiaphorism in the dictionary is a Christian Protestant theological theory that certain rites and actions are matters of indifference in religion since not forbidden by the Scriptures.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADIAPHORISM


adventurism
ədˈvɛntʃəˌrɪzəm
aneurysm
ˈænjəˌrɪzəm
aphorism
ˈæfəˌrɪzəm
asterism
ˈæstəˌrɪzəm
barbarism
ˈbɑːbəˌrɪzəm
consumerism
kənˈsjuːməˌrɪzəm
counterterrorism
ˌkaʊntəˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm
esoterism
ɛˈsɒtəˌrɪzəm
futurism
ˈfjuːtʃəˌrɪzəm
hypopituitarism
ˌhaɪpəpɪˈtjuːɪtəˌrɪzəm
isomerism
aɪˈsɒməˌrɪzəm
mannerism
ˈmænəˌrɪzəm
mesmerism
ˈmɛzməˌrɪzəm
militarism
ˈmɪlɪtəˌrɪzəm
naturism
ˈneɪtʃəˌrɪzəm
plagiarism
ˈpleɪdʒəˌrɪzəm
secularism
ˈsɛkjʊləˌrɪzəm
terrorism
ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm
Thatcherism
ˈθætʃəˌrɪzəm
voluntarism
ˈvɒləntəˌrɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADIAPHORISM

adiabatic
adiabatically
adiactinic
adiaphorist
adiaphoristic
adiaphoron
adiaphorous
adiathermancy
adiathermanous
adiathermic
Adichie
Adie
adieu
adieux
Adige
adios
adipic acid
adipocere
adipocerous
adipocyte

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADIAPHORISM

agroterrorism
algorism
anachorism
antiterrorism
apriorism
bio-terrorism
chorism
colorism
cyberterrorism
deteriorism
diorism
ecoterrorism
hectorism
meliorism
meteorism
pelorism
phosphorism
probabiliorism
rigorism
tourism
tutorism

Synonyms and antonyms of adiaphorism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «adiaphorism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADIAPHORISM

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The translations of adiaphorism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adiaphorism» in English.

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Adiaphorisme
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adiaphorism
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Adiaphorism
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adiaphorism
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adiaphorism
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अभिप्राय
75 millions of speakers

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adiaphorism
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adiaphorism
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adiaphorism
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adiaphorism
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adiaphorism
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adiaphorism
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adiaphorism
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Trends of use of adiaphorism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADIAPHORISM»

The term «adiaphorism» is normally little used and occupies the 146.933 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADIAPHORISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adiaphorism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADIAPHORISM»

Discover the use of adiaphorism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adiaphorism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Early Modern German Culture: ...
adiaphorism, Johann Saubert made sure to distinguish his resignation toward confessional polemics from the much-criticized adiaphorist position,63 and Georg Schmedikens insisted as late as 1667 that adiaphorism made the Wittenbergers ...
Randolph Conrad Head, Daniel Eric Christensen, 2007
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Spenser and Biblical Poetics
This negative adiaphorism led the aforementioned Elizabethan and Edwardian injunctions to condemn rosaries, and to do so, as Spenser limits them, in favor of good works, which are commanded in Scripture. But when unqualified, the term ...
Carol V. Kaske, 1999
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The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance ...
While the doctrine of adiaphorism negotiated the lines between state and church authority, it also defined the boundaries of scientific thought. Because they were of human and historical origin, adiaphora were also susceptible to humanist ...
Richard Halpern, 1991
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John Calvin and the daughters of Sarah :
15 David Anderson Bowen, "John Calvin's Ecclesiological Adiaphorism: Distinguishing the 'Indifferent,' the 'Essential,' and the 'Important' in His Thought and Practice, 1547-1559" (Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1985), p. 5. is Bowen ...
John Lee Thompson, 1989
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Reformation and the Visual Arts: The Protestant Image ...
4, 31 B. J. Verkamp, 'The Zwinglians and adiaphorism', Church History, 42, 1973, p. 489. 32 Zwinglis Werke, vol. 4, p. 119. On Zwingli's Christology, see G. W. Locher, Die Theologie Huldrych Zwinglis im Lichte seiner Christologie, Zurich 1952.
Sergiusz Michalski, 2013
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The Sacred and Profane in English Renaissance Literature
12 Although modern critics tend to associate adiaphorism with incipient Protestant individualism (that is, if a belief or practice is not prescribed by scripture, it is left to an individual's discretion to hold or perform it), Melanchthon's conception of ...
Mary Arshagouni Papazian, 2008
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Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose
doctrine of adiaphorism, that is, making liturgical forms "indifferent." God is not scrupulous about forms of worship; Christians can still be Christians by adhering to the basics of the creed and regarding more or less disinterestedly the details of  ...
Anne Drury Hall, 2010
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Sworn Bond in Tudor England: Oaths, Vows and Covenants in ...
Adiaphorism was an important matter of discussion among reformers, including Luther, Calvin, and Tyndale, among many others. Much of the discussion revolved around ceremonialism, and whether a particular ceremony was commanded or ...
Thea Cervone, 2011
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Methods of Comparative Law
To this monotheistically inspired adiaphorism, this fundamental repression, critique juxtaposes intervals, amities, intimacies and interstices forgotten to lawyers. The conjunction of desire and non-decision, suspension, attention prior to action, ...
P. G. Monateri, 2012
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Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity: ...
It is Hobbes's minimalist Christianity, including a salient 'adiaphorism', which has prompted some scholars to emphasise his debt to the 'liberal' or 'rationalistic' theological tendencies of such members of the Great Tew circle as Falkland and  ...
Nicholas D. Jackson, 2007

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADIAPHORISM»

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Pacesetters of Anglican Protestantism: Part 3 of 4
... not long after the publication of his Stratagems of Satan) was that the tolerant latitudinarianism and advanced adiaphorism of which he was a lonely advocate ... «Virtue Online, Feb 15»

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