Indifferentism

Quick meaning: Indifferentism is a noun meaning (religion) The doctrine that all religions are equally valid.

Meaning

(religion) The doctrine that all religions are equally valid.

More Meanings

1. (more broadly) Relativism, agnosticism; apathy, indifference.
2. (countable) An expression of such a doctrine or view.
3. (philosophy) The doctrine of absolute identity, i.e. that to be in thought and to exist are one and the same thing.

Example Sentences

Here and there you may still see a man—even a youth—with a single eyeglass, an elaborately bored and weary air, and a little stock of cynicisms and indifferentisms contrasting oddly with a mortal anxiety about his clothes.

This life, whose dreary superficiality is covered by the glitter of universal blague, like the stupid clowning of a harlequin by the spangles of a motley costume, induced in him a Frenchified—but most un-French—cosmopolitanism, in reality a mere barren indifferentism posing as intellectual superiority.

The second class of parishioners were less Philistine, certainly, but even more hopeless from the parish priest’s point of view. In their luxurious houses they lived an easy, selfish, and sensual life, beyond his reach, surrounded by a wall of indifferentism, and contemptuous of all that was not tangible and material.

To the pantheist or monist [mystical experiences] are experiences of the One, which is identical with himself, and which is probably the same in all religions and even in secular mysticism. In face of this easygoing tolerance or indifferentism it is perhaps not surprising that monotheists are often intolerant, believing that God has chosen them and by implication not others.

Word Forms

• indifferentisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inclusivism, omnism, exclusivism, alternativism, interdenominationalism, maximism.

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