Popular indifferentism is revealed in the numerous prosecutions for inobservance or contempt of church observances.
It is the indifferentism with regard to all religious belief we most of all fear.
The Catholic paper, indeed, reacts as an antitoxin against the virus of unbelief and indifferentism which a non-Catholic atmosphere is bound to spread.
Lutheranism and doctrinal indifferentism are just as destructive mutually as are truth and falsehood.
Indifferentism as to false doctrine and practise has ever proved to be the most deadly foe of true Lutheranism, which, essentially, is but another name for consistent Christianity.
But, instead of more firmly establishing the Lutheran Church, the indifferentism and unionism introduced into New York by the Halle Pietists soon opened wide her gates to a flood of rationalism.
The unionism and indifferentism of the New York Ministerium naturally developed and merged into Socinianism and Rationalism under its liberal, but most able and influential leader, Dr.
Such was the principle of indifferentism on which Muhlenberg based his practise of fraternal recognition and fellowship.
The American Lutheran synods, in order successfully to steer a unity-union movement, must purge themselves thoroughly from the leaven of error, of indifferentismand unionism.
From the very beginning to the end of his activity in America the practise of Muhlenberg was not free fromindifferentism and unionism.
Partly, because of the indifferentismwhich is everywhere so prevalent.
The old grandfather was like a picture of Don Quixote, a very ideal of chivalry, which character a life of prudent, careful indifferentism entirely belied.
The common expressions of that country betray the materialism and indifferentism of the people, and their consequent immorality.
The Roman Catholic Hungarians are said to lapse easily from the Church, going into indifferentismand nothingism.
While Americans are walking in the darkness of indifferentism and of an optimism born not of faith but ignorance, immigration is steadily changing the character of our civilization.
The survival of pre-Christian feeling, which appeared as indifferentism among the educated classes, took a very different shape among the lower strata of society.
Their efforts to promote good works and good moral standards independent of religious authority tend to foster the spirit of religious indifferentism and moral naturalism.
Indifferentism or Latitudinarianism holds that all forms of religion are equally true, and that it makes no difference whether one is Buddhist, Jew or Christian.
The ardour of his youthful admiration blinded him to the dangerous principles of indifferentismand doubt contained in his master's works, and particularly in his Education of the World.
Being thus deprived of a fixed belief, he was more open to the action of Lessing's principles of universal tolerance, which amounted to the coldest indifferentism and doubt.
I see too much of the real life, even here in K[=o]be, to think the indifferentism real.
The idea is growing upon me, more and more each day I live, that the supposed indifferentism of the Japanese in religious matters is affected indifferentism--that it is put on like yofuku, only for foreigners.
Unionism and indifferentism mark the character of the General Synod from its very beginning.
This attitude of indifferentism naturally led to the exchange of fraternal delegates with the Reformed and other Churches.
In spite of its irreproachable confessional basis the General Council was imbued with a spirit of indifferentism and unionism, though of a finer grade and quality than that prevailing in the General Synod.
Gossipry on this side is checked and controlled by gossipry on that; and the nicely balanced indifferentism of men emasculate, blank of belief, who play with the realities of life, is set forth with its superior foolishness of wisdom.
Such a mood of amiable indifferentism is abhorrent to Browning's feelings.
Having traversed the various forms of Christian faith and scepticism, the speaker in Christmas Eve declines into a mood of lazy benevolence and mild indifferentism towards each and all of these.
But more and more the union became identified with doctrinal indifferentism and slighting of all church symbols, and those in whom the church feeling still prevailed were driven into opposition to the union (ยง 193).
In his lofty carriage and buoyant face were again visible the old haughtiness of the indifferentism that keeps itself aloof from the turbulent emotions and conventional frivolities of those whom its philosophy pities and scorns.
A colourless indifferentism was the pest of the age.
In the eighteenth century there was plenty of the monotonous indifferentism which bears a dreary superficial resemblance to unity, but there was very little in the prevalent tone of thought which was adapted to encourage its genuine growth.
Much also is to be imputed to the indifferentism and sometimes the anti-religious sentiment of an important and numerous class of doctrinaire politicians of which Jefferson may be taken as a type.
Like all religious strifes--like the vaster Thirty Years' War in contemporary Germany--it generated both doubt and indifferentism in men who would otherwise have remained undisturbed in orthodoxy.
His code of ethics is a very easy one, and a very dangerous one, running into that indifferentism so prevalent and demoralizing to-day.
With all its turbulence and occasional excesses contrasted with the cynical refinement and politeindifferentism of to-day, was not the older system the better one?
Hartmann has lived at Berlin, where he endeavors in every-day life to prove the practical value of evolutionary pessimism, which it is his wish to substitute for the indifferentism and quietist doctrines of Schopenhauer.
The discriminating concessions which they made, therefore, were not born of an easy-going indifferentism and the soft and nerveless charity that regards all religions alike.
Charity" is the watchword of indifferentism in the West as well as in the East; and the East and the West are joining hands in their effort to soothe the world into slumber with all its sins and woes unhealed.
But this entire view is founded on indifferentism and unionism flowing from the false principle that quality must be sacrificed to quantity, eternal truth to temporal peace and unity to external progress and temporary success.
