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Christianity   /krˌɪstʃiˈænɪti/   Listen
noun
Christianity  n.  
1.
The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.
2.
Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion
3.
The body of Christian believers. (Obs.) "To Walys fled the christianitee Of olde Britons."





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"Christianity" Quotes from Famous Books



... reclaim her, and she had freed him from every law, human or divine. He could get a divorce anywhere, that he knew; and after all a divorce was but the legal affirmation of that severance which had been made by nature, ay, and by God. Even the pure law of Christianity permitted it for that one cause. Therefore there was no wrong. And to spare publicity was merciful, merciful to her as ...
— A Country Gentleman and his Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
... You may profess a conservative Christianity that would theologize the very grace out of the command, "Love thy neighbor as thyself." You may ignore this Christ-like precept, and adopt something more fashionable and aristocratic; but if ...
— Daring and Suffering: - A History of the Great Railroad Adventure • William Pittenger
... what your foot means when it goes in that way; and you shan't do it. Come here, Bell, and let me teach you Christianity. I'm a fine sort of teacher, am I not? And I did not quite ...
— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope
... triumph of the Christian Church gave them a new importance. For centuries henceforth they were the prime authority for Jewish history of post-Biblical times, and were treasured as a kind of introduction to the Gospels, illuminating the period in which Christianity had its birth. The traitor-historian was soon forgotten by his own people, if they ever had regard for him, and with the rest of the Hellenistic writers he dropped out of the Rabbinical tradition. Possibly the Aramaic version of the Wars survived for a time in the Eastern schools, but ...
— Josephus • Norman Bentwich
... review-articles; and in particular the views adopted with regard to the New Testament literature are rather indicated than justified. These defects I hope to remedy in a future work on "Jesus of Nazareth, and the Founding of Christianity," for which the present articles must be regarded as furnishing only a few introductory hints. This work has been for several years on my mind, but as it may still be long before I can find the leisure needful for writing it out, it seemed ...
— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske


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