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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 192 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADIAPHORISTS (Gr. a&ac6opos, indifferent)  . The Adiaphorist controversy among See also:Lutherans was an issue of the provisional See also: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 See also: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 .

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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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