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🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Adiaphora is a theological term that means "indifference." It typically refers to practices that are neither commanded nor forbidden by God in Scripture. The Lutheran churches have historically used adiaphora as a method for explaining and allowing reasonable liturgical and personal piety differences between churches to exist while remaining unified around the core confessions of the church. The fellows discuss why understanding adiaphora is important and how it can benefit the church.
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1:55.8 | and saw one that piqued my interest, which, Bruce, it's the way you phrase these, |
2:02.5 | because you could just have put this as a one-word topic. |
2:05.4 | You could have just said, Adiafra. |
2:07.5 | And we could have done an episode on Adiafra, |
2:10.4 | but you load the question with an answer in it or with a problem as well, |
2:17.1 | which I like, which is why the church needs to relearn |
2:22.4 | Adiafra. |
2:24.8 | And so per usual, per the formula here, I'm going to sort of ask you, why phrase it like that? |
2:30.9 | Why the relearn? |
2:32.2 | What problem are you seeing that brings up this sort of |
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