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Definition of Christian religion
1. Noun. A monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior.
Examples of category: Mortification, Inerrancy, Errancy, Paradise, Hell, Infernal Region, Inferno, Nether Region, Perdition, Pit, Tritheism, Article Of Faith, Credendum, Annunciation, Ecumenicalism, Ecumenicism, Ecumenism, Immaculate Conception, Immaculate Conception Of The Virgin Mary, Incarnation, Nicene Creed, Real Presence, Assumption, Communion, Council, Church Father, Father, Father Of The Church, Antichrist, Laurentius, Lawrence, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence, Ascension, Ascension Day, Ascension Of The Lord, August 6, Transfiguration, Transfiguration Day, Transubstantiate, Receive, Assume, Cursed, Damned, Doomed, Unredeemed, Unsaved, Ransomed, Redeemed
Generic synonyms: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Specialized synonyms: Adventism, Second Adventism, Catholicism, Catholicity, Albigensianism, Catharism, Donatism, Protestantism, Puseyism, Tractarianism
Derivative terms: Christian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Christian Religion
Literary usage of Christian religion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"SECTION VIII THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE christian religion 556 MEN blaspheme what
they do not know. The christian religion consists in two points. ..."
2. Journal of Theological Studies (1903)
"Such, Dr. Fairbairn tells us, is the design of his work on The Philosophy of the
christian religion. If in the following review we seem to find not a little ..."
3. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"Worship prescribed by the christian religion suitable to God and man. 3. ...
Excellency and usefulness of the christian religion. 5. ..."
4. The Works of George Berkeley ...: Including His Posthumous Works; with by George Berkeley (1901)
"Worship prescribed by the christian religion suitable to God and man. 3. ...
Excellency and usefulness of the christian religion. 5. ..."
5. A Student's Philosophy of Religion by William Kelley Wright (1922)
"II—The Function of the christian religion. This leads to a statement of what the
function of the christian religion, psychologically considered, really is, ..."
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