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Definition of Christian church
1. Noun. One of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship.
Generic synonyms: Faith, Organized Religion, Religion
Group relationships: Christendom, Christianity
Specialized synonyms: Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church, Armenian Church, Catholic Church, Nestorian Church, Coptic Church, Protestant, Protestant Church, Unification Church
Member holonyms: Christian
2. Noun. A Protestant church that accepts the Bible as the only source of true Christian faith and practices baptism by immersion.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Christian Church
Literary usage of Christian church
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"1911; ACA Hall, The Sevenfold Unity of the christian church. New York, 1911 ;
Lord Kinnaird (editor). The Problem of Unity, London, 1911/ W. Sonday, ..."
2. Poole's Index to Periodical Literature: The First Supplement, from January 1 by William Frederick Poole, William Isaac Fletcher (1888)
"Christian Charity in the Ancient Church. (.RV Foster) Cumb. Q. 5: 184. Christian
Church. See Church. christian church Archetype. (EJ Fisk) Bapt. R. 6: 327. ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"Miscellaneous pamphlets: 'Letters on the Constitution, Government, and Discipline
of the christian church ' (1767) ; 'The Oracles of Christ and the ..."
4. The Rise of the Mediaeval Church and Its Influence on the Civilisation of by Alexander Clarence Flick (1909)
"THE christian church has both an internal and an external side—a soul and a body.
Thoughts, feelings, and beliefs constitute the inner Church, the creed. ..."
5. The Christian Pastor and the Working Church by Washington Gladden (1898)
"Pastoral Theology is a department of Practical Theology, which Cave describes
as " the science of the functions of the christian church," l and which in the ..."
6. The World's Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the by John Henry Barrows (1893)
"... but I will endeavor to set forth the original establishment of the first
christian church in the world, the first beginning of the Primitive Church, ..."
7. General History of Civilization in Europe: From the Fall of the Roman Empire by Guizot (François), Caleb Sprague Henry (1856)
"I say the christian church, because, as I have observed once before, it is not
about Christianity itself, Christianity as a religious system, ..."
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