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Christianity Definition

Chris·ti·an·ity (kris′c̸hē an′ə tē, -tē an′-)

noun

  1. Christians collectively
  2. the Christian religion, based upon belief in Jesus as the Christ and upon his teachings
  3. a particular Christian religious system
  4. the state of being a Christian

Etymology: ME cristianite < OFr crestiente < LL(Ec) Christianitas < Christianus, Christian

Christianity Synonyms

Christianity

n.

  1. A religion based upon the divinity of Christ

    teachings of Christ, religion of Christ, the Church, Christian faith, divine revelation, the Gospel, the Faith, Christian fundamentalism, Evangelicalism; Catholicism, Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Protestantism, Anglicanism; see also church 3, faith 2, religion 2.

  2. The body of Christian people

    Christendom, Christians, body of Christ, followers of Christ, Christian community; see also church 3.

  3. An attitude associated with Christianity

    Christlike temper, Christian mercy, Christian spirit, loving spirit, loving-kindness, charity, forgiving disposition, having God in one's heart; see also kindness 1, mercy 1, tolerance 1.

Christianity Quotes

Christianity has taught us to care.Caring is the greatest thing, caring matters most.

—Hu«  gel, Friedrich von, Baron

Christianity is the most materialist of all great religions.

—Temple,William

Christianity is really a man's religion: there's not much in it for women except docility, obedience, who-sweeps- the-room-as-for-thy-cause, downcast eyes and death in childbirth. For the men it's better: all power and money and fine robes, the burning of the hereticsöfun, fun, fun!öand the Inquisition fulminating from the pulpit.

—Weldon, Fay originally Franklin Birkinshaw

People can say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

—Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

If, therefore, a man will so live as to show that he feels and believes the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity, he must live above the world.

—Law,William

One was left, too, with a gap in Christianity: the canonical gospels do not record that Christ laughed or played.Cana man be perfect if henever laughs or plays? Krishna's jokes may be vapid, but they bridge a gap.

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity.

—Lennon,JohnWinston

Those who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose'are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.

—Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

His Christianity was muscular.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityöand even this garment has looked very different at different timesöthen what is religionless Christianity?

—Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

—Borman, Frank

A local thing called Christianity.

—Hardy,Thomas

There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

—Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

—Whitehead, Alfred North