Spiritual vs Christian - What's the difference?
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Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
* Sir Thomas Browne
Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.
Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
* Bible, 1. Corinthians xv. 44
Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
(Christianity) Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.
* Bible, Gal. vi. 1
Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
Any spiritual function, office, or affair.
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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As adjectives the difference between spiritual and christian
is that spiritual is of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul while Christian is of, like or relating to Christianity or Christians.As nouns the difference between spiritual and christian
is that spiritual is a Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song while Christian is a believer in Christianity.As a proper noun Christian is
a given name derived from Ancient Greek found in England since the twelfth century.spiritual
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Alternative forms
* spirituall, spirytual, spirytuall, spyritual, spyrituall, spyrytual, spyrytuallAdjective
(en adjective)- Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.
- God's law is spiritual ; it is a transcript of the divine nature, and extends its authority to the acts of the soul of man.
- a spiritual substance or being
- It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
- If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual , restore such an one.
- the spiritual''' functions of the clergy; lords '''spiritual''' and temporal; a '''spiritual corporation
Derived terms
* antispiritual * antispiritualism * antispirituality * spiritual desertion * spiritualism * spiritualist * spirituality * spirituallyNoun
(en noun)- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals , and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell.
christian
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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
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(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.
