10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADIAPHORIST»
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Gallio serves to illustrate the idea of the nullifidian or adiaphorisT — one who
views all things as things indifferent. In English Popish Ceremonies he writes, "
The atheistical nullifidian, nothing regards the assoiling of ecclesiastical
controversies ...
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Locke: Political Essays
In less palatable form, it was also Hobbes's view, for Leviathan was a deliberate
reductio of the adiaphorist position, in that what is jure humano almost entirely
occludes what is jure divino. Locke's Essay on Toleration (1667) marked a
decisive ...
John Locke, Mark Goldie, 1997
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Methods of Comparative Law
Qua professional persona she is blind, indifferent, and less of the earth than of
the clouds. The adiaphorist, the archetype of the establishment lawyer, abstracts,
generalizes and offers norms in the place of subjects and substances. Of non-law
...
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Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Early Modern German Culture: ...
Parts of Melanchthon's adiaphorist position, in fact, became articulate only in
reaction to Flacius's polemics. Several parts of the adiaphorist position thus
emerged only through Melanchthon's struggle against the Magdeburgers'
impositions.
Randolph Conrad Head, Daniel Eric Christensen, 2007
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English Epicures and Stoics: Ancient Legacies in Early ...
N.'s Apology of English Arminianisme (1654), 10, the irenic stance of the "
Adiaphorist" or neutralist is preferred over the zealous heretic; but Richard
Bernard, Christian See to Thy Conscience ( 1 63 1 ), 162, introduces the term "
Adiaphorist" to ...
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The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History: The early, ...
7 Adiaphora and Adiaphorist Controversies liament and the Settlement of
Religion 1559 (1982). ELIZABETH GERHARDT Addai (Addaeus), first-century
missionary, probably legendary. The name is perhaps a corruption of Thaddaeus
, who ...
Robert Benedetto, James O. Duke, 2008
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Encyclopedia of Tudor England
A person or position is often described as adiaphorist if it tends to reduce the
number of items held to be critical to faith. Although an old concept, the idea of
adiaphora took on much greater importance during the Reformation as reformist
...
John A. Wagner, Susan Walters Schmid, 2012
Cartwright and Whitgift While the Adiaphorist Controversy was drawing to a close
in Germany a similar dispute known as the Admonition Controversy had broken
out in Elizabethan England.19 This controversy had been initiated by the ...
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Milton's Scriptural Reasoning: Narrative and Protestant ...
Previously, Stillingfleet had advanced a similarly adiaphorist argument for
religious conformity in Irenicum (London, 1661), 70. Mark Goldie, “The Theory of
Religious Intolerance in Restoration England,” in The Politics ofReligion in
Restoration ...
Phillip Johnathan Donnelly, 2009
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Lutheranism: The Theological Movement and Its Confessional ...
Although medieval textbooks used the ancient Stoic term "adiaphoron" to
describe what the Christian is "allowed" rather than "commanded" to do (based
on 1 Cor. 6:12 and 10:23), they did not teach an adiaphorist understanding of any
aspect ...
Eric W. Gritsch, Robert W. Jenson, 1976
