Definition of indifferentism in English:
indifferentism
noun ɪnˈdɪf(ə)r(ə)ntɪz(ə)mɪnˈdɪf(ə)rənˌtɪzəm
mass nounThe belief that differences of religious belief are of no importance.
Example sentencesExamples
- What all the authors agree on is that a deep encounter with another faith tradition does not result in what some nervous people fear: indifferentism or relativism.
- Thus, dialogical openness is quite different from indifferentism; identity and dialogue are correlative.
- Therefore, they resisted what they perceived as American extremes of rationalism and indifferentism, precisely as did their Protestant and Catholic colleagues.
- He was an unashamed confessional Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism.
- Thus, when he protests that his pluralism is to be sharply distinguished from relativism and indifferentism (as he repeatedly does), he is only partly right.
Definition of indifferentism in US English:
indifferentism
nouninˈdif(ə)rənˌtizəmɪnˈdɪf(ə)rənˌtɪzəm
The belief that differences of religious belief are of no importance.
Example sentencesExamples
- He was an unashamed confessional Calvinist in an age of doctrinal indifferentism.
- Thus, when he protests that his pluralism is to be sharply distinguished from relativism and indifferentism (as he repeatedly does), he is only partly right.
- What all the authors agree on is that a deep encounter with another faith tradition does not result in what some nervous people fear: indifferentism or relativism.
- Therefore, they resisted what they perceived as American extremes of rationalism and indifferentism, precisely as did their Protestant and Catholic colleagues.
- Thus, dialogical openness is quite different from indifferentism; identity and dialogue are correlative.