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See also:ADIAPHORISTS (Gr. a&ac6opos, indifferent) . The Adiaphorist controversy among See also:Lutherans was an issue of the provisional See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of See also:compromise between religious parties, pending a See also:general See also:council, See also:drawn up by See also:Charles V., sanctioned at the See also:diet of See also:Augsburg, 15th of May 1548, and known as the Augsburg See also:Interim. It satisfied neither Catholics nor Protestants. As See also:head of the See also:Protestant party the See also:young elector See also:Maurice of See also:Saxony negotiated with See also:Melanchthon and others, and at See also:Leipzig, on the 22nd of See also:December 1548, secured their See also:acceptance of the Interim as regards adiaphora (things indifferent), points neither enjoined nor forbidden in Scripture. This sanctioned See also:jurisdiction of See also:Catholic bishops, and observance-of certain See also:rites, while all were to accept See also:justification by faith (relegating sola to the adiaphora). This modification was known as the Leipzig Interim; its See also:advocates were stigmatized as Adiaphorists. Passionate opposition was led by Melanchthon's colleague, Matth. See also:Flacius, on the grounds that the imperial See also:power was not the See also:judge of adiaphora, and that the measure was a See also:trick to bring back popery. From See also:Wittenberg he fled, See also:April 1549, to See also:Magdeburg, making it the headquarters of rigid Lutheranism. Practically the controversy was concluded by the religious See also:peace ratified at Augsburg (See also:Sept. 25, 1555), which See also:left princes a See also:free choice between the See also:rival confessions, with the right to impose either on their subjects; but much See also:bitter See also:internal strife was kept up by Protestants on the theoretical question of adiaphora; to appease this was one See also:object of the See also:Formula Concordiae, 1577. Another.
Adiaphorist controversy between Pietists and their opponents, respecting the lawfulness of amusements, arose in 1681, when Anton Reiser (1628—1686) denounced the See also:opera as antichristian.
See arts. by J. Gottschick in A. Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1896) ; by Fritz in I. Goschler's Diet. Encyclop. de la Theol. Cath. (1858) ; other authorities in J. C. L. See also:Gieseler, Ch. Hist.
(N. See also:York ed., 1868, vol. iv.); monograph by Erh. Schmid, Adiaphora, wissenschaftlich and historisch untersucht (18o9), from the rigorist point of view.
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