Definition of Indifferentism

1. n. State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism.

Definition of Indifferentism

1. Noun. The doctrine that all religions are equally valid ¹

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Definition of Indifferentism

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Medical Definition of Indifferentism

1. 1. State of indifference; want of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism. "The indifferentism which equalizes all religions and gives equal rights to truth and error." (Cardinal Manning) 2. Same as Identism. 3. A heresy consisting in an unconcern for any particular creed, provided the morals be right and good. Origin: Cf. F. Indifferentisme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indifferentism

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Literary usage of Indifferentism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"This religious indifferentism is to be distinguished from political indifferentism, ... indifferentism is not to be confounded with religious indifference. ..."

2. History of Christian Doctrine by George Park Fisher (1896)
"In the eighteenth century, the spread of free-thinking and of religious indifferentism incited and enabled Roman Catholic sovereigns to restrict to the ..."

3. Infidelity: Its, Aspects, Causes, and Agencies: Being the Prize Essay of the by Thomas Pearson (1854)
"CHAPTER Y. THE DENIAL OF MAN'S RESPONSIBILITY; OB indifferentism. A diluted kind of scepticism—Not necessarily implying open hostility to the ..."

4. A Journey Through the Chinese Empire by Evariste Régis Huc (1855)
"... Missionaries—Glance at the Present State of Christianity in China—Motives of Hostility in the Government toward Christians—indifferentism of the Chinese ..."

5. Philosophia Ultima: Or, Science of the Sciences by Charles Woodruff Shields (1888)
"MODERN indifferentism BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION. IF a truce should be proclaimed between two great armies on the brink of battle, we can imagine what a ..."

6. The Final Philosophy: Or, System of Perfectible Knowledge Issuing from the by Charles Woodruff Shields (1877)
"MODERN indifferentism BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION. IF a truce should be proclaimed between two great armies on the brink of battle, we can imagine what a ..."

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