ANTIADIAPHORISTS, Antiadiaphorista, those opposite to the Adiaphorists. See ADIAPHORIST. This Name was given, in the XVIth Century, to the rigid Lutherans, who disavowed the Episcopal Jurisdiction, and many of the Church Ceremonies, retained by the Moderate Lutherans. See LUTHERAN. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἀντί, contra, against, and ἀδιάφορα, indifferent.
ANTIADIAPHORISTS
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