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Christendom vs Christianism - What's the difference?

christendom | christianism |

As nouns the difference between christendom and christianism

is that christendom is christianity while christianism is christian fundamentalism.

christendom

English

(wikipedia Christendom)

Noun

  • The Christian world.
  • *Milton
  • *:The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom .
  • *Coleridge
  • *:A wide and still widening Christendom .
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin, 2010, p.503:
  • *:Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England.
  • (obsolete) The state of being a Christian.
  • *:
  • *:And also sire Palomydes auowed neuer to take ful crystendome vnto the tyme that he had done seuen batails within the lystys
  • (obsolete) The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
  • *Shakespeare
  • *:Pretty, fond, adoptious Christendoms .

    • Related terms

    * Christ * Christianity

    christianism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Christian fundamentalism.
  • *May 7, 2006 , (Andrew Sullivan), ‘My Problem with Chistianism’, TIME Magazine :
  • *:Christianism is an ideology, politics, an ism. The distinction between Christian and Christianist echoes the distinction we make between Muslim and Islamist. Muslims are those who follow Islam. Islamists are those who want to wield Islam as a political force and conflate state and mosque.
  • (obsolete) The Christian religion.
  • (obsolete) The Christian world; Christendom.

    • Related terms

    * Christianist * Christianity (Webster 1913)