Christadelphian

British  

/ ˌkrɪstəˈdɛlfɪən /

noun

1. a member of a Christian millenarian sect founded in the US about 1848, holding that only the just will enter eternal life, that the wicked will be annihilated, and that the ignorant, the unconverted, and infants will not be raised from the dead

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adjective

1. of or relating to this body or its beliefs and practices

Etymology

Origin of Christadelphian

C19: from Late Greek khristadelphos, from khristos _Christ + adelphos brother

Example Sentences

She recalled the Christadelphian family who sponsored her and whose only son had died.

From The Guardian

His parents are members of the fundamentalist Christadelphian sect, and he grew up in Nottingham in a strictly regulated household where Christmas was not celebrated – he got no presents – and TV was forbidden.

From The Guardian

So he threw away all the meal he hadn't sold; and then the new machinery was pulled out and the millstones replaced, "to await the Lord's coming," he added, being a Second Adventist—or by his own title a "Christadelphian and an Old Bachelor."

From Project Gutenberg

Grandfather Sam Johnson started but as a Baptist, converted to the Disciples of Christ, ended up a Christadelphian�which may be why Lyndon's Cousin Oriole still belongs to that hyperfundamentalist sect.

From Time Magazine Archive

Australia, the Christadelphian Church ran an ad in the Courier Mail: "A vital address on the possibility of obtaining Immorality will be given by Mr. A. C. Mogg."

From Time Magazine Archive