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Adiaphoristic

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Ad`i`aph`o`ris´tic
a.1.Pertaining to matters indifferent in faith and practice.


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Nathan Montover rehearses the historical context of Article X of the Formula of Concord, which dealt with the adiaphoristic controversy of the sixteenth century.
Shortly after his death a controversy arose in Lutheranism that echoed Luther's confession and promise, a conflict now commonly called the adiaphoristic controversy.
Arguing that the 1977 LCMS convention should reject LBW, Schmidt cites the adiaphoristic controversy of the sixteenth-century Formula of Concord X, which forbids concessions on nonessentials (adiaphora), like liturgical ritual, when under persecution.
 
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