adiaphora

English

Noun

adiaphora

1. plural of adiaphoron
2. (nonstandard, uncommon) in singular use
   • 2003, P. Solomon Raj, The New Wine-Skins: The Story of the Indigenous Missions in Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India, →ISBN, chapter i: “The Quest”, 13:

     Adiaphora being the theological tool which was developed during the controversies of the Reformation, is the baptism not an adiaphora?

   • 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), ProQuest, 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.

   • 2015, Ankur Barua, Debating ‘Conversion’ in Hinduism and Christianity (Routledge Hindu Studies Series), →ISBN (hardback), →ISBN (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.

Latin

Adjective

adiaphora

1. inflection of adiaphoros:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

adiaphorā

1. ablative feminine singular of adiaphoros