Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Can We Agree to Disagree


Martin Davie helps us think about ‘adiaphora’ – things on which we can disagree.

There has been much talk lately of ‘agreeing to disagree’ on the issues of human sexuality in the church. In this article, I shall introduce three categories into which we can place matters on which there is disagreement within the church:
• matters which are adiaphora
• matters which are not adiaphora and on which the church cannot simply live with disagreement, and
• matters which are not adiaphora and on which the church can live with disagreement.
Having introduced these categories, I shall conclude by asking which category the issue of human sexuality fits into. Read More

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