The political #Bible, part 4 : toleration | Nick Spencer | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/aug/29/political-bible-toleration
Yet, if the Bible carried with it the logic of intolerance, it also bore the logic and language of tolerance. This came in the concept of adiaphora – “things indifferent” – derived primarily from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians and referring to the conviction that some matters, such as eating meat sacrificed to idols, were not essential to faith.