Christianism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Christianism
1570–80; < Late Latin Chrīstiānismus < Greek Chrīstiānismós Christianity, equivalent to chrīstiān ( ós ) Christian + -ismos -ism
Example Sentences
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For Paganism believed in the healthy and joyful body; and Christianism in the soul superior thereto.
From Tatterdemalion by Galsworthy, John
"The emotions of men," Rousseau argued, "have by seventeen hundred years of asceticism and Christianism been so disciplined, that they can now be trusted to their own guidance."
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)
Orthodox Christianism explains this history on the supernaturalistic theory that it is determined by the providential directions of a triune divinity.
From Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by Brown, William Montgomery
An intransigeant, an irreconcilable, this King Penda, fighting his last battle against this new and hated thing, this Christianism!
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)
Communism and Christianism have, indeed, this in common, that their object is to promote life, long life, and happy life, both lives in a large and full measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over.
From Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by Brown, William Montgomery
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