indifferentism
Americannoun
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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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Etymology
Origin of indifferentism
From the French word indiff érentisme, dating back to 1820–30. See indifferent, -ism
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She blamed the tolerance of the Whigs, and thought with Sacheverell that it was necessary to defend the Church both against Popery and indifferentism.
From Political Women, Vol. 2 by Sutherland Menzies
In the slack times of peace he discovered no outlet for the grim within him—his fire could never be lighted by love, therefore he drifted in the waters of indifferentism.
From Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy
In spite of its irreproachable confessional basis the General Council was imbued with a spirit of indifferentism and unionism, though of a finer grade and quality than that prevailing in the General Synod.
From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente
The survival of pre-Christian feeling, which appeared as indifferentism among the educated classes, took a very different shape among the lower strata of society.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
Some persons even think the present state of things traceable to that same toleration, leading, as it did in many cases, to lukewarmness and indifferentism in religion.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
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