Christian vs Spirituality - What's the difference?
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A believer in Christianity.
* 2008 , Christopher Catherwood, Making War in the Name of God, Page 188
* 1997', Anne Field, ''From darkness to light: how one became a '''Christian in the early church (ISBN 1888212063)
An individual who seeks to live his or her life according to the principles and values taught by Jesus Christ.
found in England since the twelfth century.
of medieval usage, rare today.
(not comparable) Of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.
(not comparable) Of, like or relating to Jesus Christ.
Kind, charitable; moral; (a term of approbation).
* 1824 , Susan Ferrier, The Inheritance
* 1854 , Nathaniel James Merriman, The Kafir, the Hottentot, and the frontier farmer (page 74)
* 1859 , David W. Belisle, The American family Robinson (page 290)
* 1867 , Henry Shepheard, Ithuriel's spear; or, Is this Christianity? (page 118)
* 1867? , Janet Robertson, Christine; or, Common-Place People
* 1981 , Mary Leader, Salem's Children , ISBN 084390982X, page 82
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The quality or state of being spiritual.
Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
Appreciation for religious values.
(obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
(obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
As an adjective christian
is .As a noun spirituality is
the quality or state of being spiritual.christian
English
Noun
(en noun)- thousands of people have been killed in recent years in violence between Muslims and Christians .
Hypernyms
* religionist, theist, Abrahamist, People of the BookHyponyms
* ChristianistCoordinate terms
*Proper noun
(en proper noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- That's very Christian of you.
- I cannot help thinking there are people in the world who are very tiresome, very impertinent, and very disagreeable; yet, I don't think it would be a very Christian act were I to tell them so.
- I must say I have seen him do a very Christian act at the Fish River. Some Kafir women were there eating; he begged of them; they refused to give him any food. I gave him some of the victuals we were enjoying, and he instantly broke the bread, and gave of it to these very Kafir women who had just refused any of theirs.
- "Besides this," said the trapper, "it is hardly a Christian act to leave these two men to perish by the hands of the savages
- So, in his esteem, an auto da fé'' — an "act of faith," as the words mean — is ''really an act of faith — an act of such faith as the author of "Ecce Homo" approves — a most Christian act — a most humane act
- I have only been at home two days, and here I am come on the third to see you and Tiny, so it is not Christian of you — as my mother would say — to receive your dutiful grand-nephew in such an unkind manner
- "Why should I? It's very Christian of you." "People here do not think of me as a Christian, Mitti." "I'd call it Christian charity," I floundered. "You think Christians have a monopoly on charity?" she asked. "Well, no," I stammered.
Usage notes
Use of the term "Christian" in the generalised approbative sense "kind, moral" may offend non-Christians. (See also the pejorative use of "Jew".)Synonyms
* (kind) charitable, helpful, kind, neighborly/neighbourly, sweet (informal)Antonyms
* (of or relating to Christianity or Christians) agnostic, atheist, heathen, non-Christian, pagan * corrupt, immoral, improper, unjust, savageDerived terms
* Christian nameSee also
* Catholic * fundamentalist * Jew * messiah * Mormon * Muslim * New Testament * Old Testament * ProtestantStatistics
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English
(wikipedia spirituality)Noun
(spiritualities)- A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality . — South.
- If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality . — Sir Walter Raleigh.
- Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come. — Bickersteth.
- During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. — Blackstone.
- Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality . — Fuller.