单词 | adiaphorite |
释义 | adiaphoriten.ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Lutheranism > Lutheran groups and sects > [noun] > Philippism > person adiaphorist1560 Melanchthonist1564 adiaphorite1644 Melanchthonian1673 Philippist1728 1644 H. Woodward As you Were 3 He..was not a Neutralist, nor Adieophorit [sic], Nullifidian, but believed. 1697 D. Jones Secret Hist. White-Hall xxii. 21 Other Adiaphorites, who were very indifferent and careless, whether they frequented any publick Worship at all. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Adiaphorists, Adiaphoristæ, Adiaphorites, a Name given in the XVIth Century to the moderate Lutherans, who adher'd to the Sentiments of Melancton; and afterwards those who subscrib'd the Interim of Charles V. 2. ΚΠ 1828 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1984) II. 22 Adiaphorites, or Uni-personalists, or better still Psilanthropists, are the proper names of the modern Socinians. b. Church History. A member of an early Christian sect which held that the divine and the human natures are so merged in the person of Jesus as to be indistinguishable. Cf. Monophysite n. rare. ΚΠ 1896 R. L. Ottley Doctr. Incarnation II. vii. iii. 121 Their own views were developed to an extreme point by the Adiaphorites, who went so far as to deny all distinction between the manhood and the Godhead in Christ. 1923 Harvard Theol. Rev. 16 214 [Stephen Niobes] became the founder of the Niobites (Adiaphorites), who attributed to Christ in the strictest sense only one nature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1644 |
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