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Christianity vs Christianism - What's the difference?

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Christianity is a synonym of christianism.

Christianity is a related term of christianism.



As nouns the difference between christianism and christianity

is that christianism is christian fundamentalism while Christianity is an Abrahamic religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and various scholars who wrote the Christian Bible.

christianity

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • An Abrahamic religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ and various scholars who wrote the Christian Bible.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=4 citation , passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity . Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
  • * 2002 , The Atlas of Great Jewish Communities: A Voyage Through History , page 27:
  • As a result, Christianity developed as a separate religion from Judaism.
  • Christendom
  • Hypernyms

    * religion, monotheism, Abrahamism

    Synonyms

    * Christianism

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Derived terms

    * muscular Christianity

    See also

    * Christian * (wikipedia) * English eponyms

    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.