indifferentism
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systematic indifference.
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the principle or opinion that differences of religious belief are essentially unimportant.
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Philosophy. the doctrine that each entity is essentially unique and at the same time essentially the same as all other entities of its kind.
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Origin of indifferentism
From the French word indiff érentisme, dating back to 1820–30. See indifferent, -ism
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Perhaps the breath of indifferentism has reached even the ice-deserts of the Polar lands.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
Partly, because of the indifferentism which is everywhere so prevalent.
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by Burgon, John William
His occupation was one which gave him opportunity of prominence in public life, but until the war he took little advantage of this, sunk in a kind of bluff indifferentism which was almost cynical.
From Tatterdemalion by Galsworthy, John
It advocated a union of the Lutherans and the Reformed based on indifferentism, and a surrender in all important doctrinal points to Calvinism, the Lutherans merely retaining their name.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
It is the enlargement of religious sympathy; not, as some may think, the progress of critical indifferentism.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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