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Christianism vs Catholicism - What's the difference?

christianism | catholicism |

As nouns the difference between christianism and catholicism

is that christianism is christian fundamentalism while catholicism is the state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.

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)

    catholicism

    English

    (wikipedia Catholicism)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The faiths, practices and doctrines of a Catholic Church, but especially of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • * 2011 , Connie Green, Religious Diversity and Children's Literature, p 156
    • Catholicism is the second largest religious body after Sunni Muslims

    Hypernyms

    * Christianity, trinitarianism

    Coordinate terms

    * Mormonism, Protestantism, Quakerism