Christianoid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Christian +‎ -oid

Adjective[edit]

Christianoid (comparative more Christianoid, superlative most Christianoid)

  1. Resembling Christianity.
    • 1961, Peter Berger, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      a process of religious inoculation, by which small doses of Christianoid concepts and terminology are injected into consciousness
    • 2011, Dan Phillips, The World-Tilting Gospel:
      That modern Christianoid notion of “spirituality” that is all about experiences and feelings, and little or nothing about solid growth in biblical knowledge, wisdom, and holiness, has no connection with what the Lord or the apostles taught []
    • 2013, Arturo Fontaine, La Vida Doble:
      There's something undignified about repentance and the desire for forgiveness, something Christianoid that bothers me. The Devil, even in defeat, stays faithful to himself and to his own contradiction.

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