adiaphora

Noun

 * 1) * 2008 May, Timothy M. Salo, An Orthodox Lutheran View of Ecclesiology: A Doctrinal and Practical Exchange between Valentin Ernst Loescher (1673–1749) and Joachim Lange (1670–1744),, UMI №: 3352196, chapter iii: “Lutheran Orthodox Ecclesiology and the Challenge of Pietism”, § 3.4: ‘Loescher’s Explicit View of Ecclesiology’, sub-§ 3.4.2: «Summary», pages 197–198:
 * Spener thought it should have been considered an adiaphora, or at worst, a moderate institution of spiritual life; Loescher thought its privatized nature competed directly with public and corporate worship.
 * 1) * 2015, Ankur Barua, Debating ‘Conversion’ in Hinduism and Christianity ( Hindu Studies Series), ISBN 9781138847019 (hardback), ISBN 9781315726991 (e-book), chapter v: “Preaching the kingdom: ‘Caste’ and ‘conversion’”:
 * Second, Roman Catholicism in India dilly-dallied on the caste question, treating ‘caste’ as an adiaphora which was not significant in matters relating to salvation.
 * Spener thought it should have been considered an adiaphora, or at worst, a moderate institution of spiritual life; Loescher thought its privatized nature competed directly with public and corporate worship.
 * 1) * 2015, Ankur Barua, Debating ‘Conversion’ in Hinduism and Christianity ( Hindu Studies Series), ISBN 9781138847019 (hardback), ISBN 9781315726991 (e-book), chapter v: “Preaching the kingdom: ‘Caste’ and ‘conversion’”:
 * Second, Roman Catholicism in India dilly-dallied on the caste question, treating ‘caste’ as an adiaphora which was not significant in matters relating to salvation.