What's the difference between baptism and christendom?
Baptism
Definition:
(v. i.) The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was, in a critical sense, our nation’s baptism of fire – and 8,000 Australians didn’t come back.” Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, sought to underline the theme of reconciliation: “The sons of nations who fought each other on opposing sides 100 years ago will gather under the same roof to convey the message of peace and brotherhood to the world,” he said.
(2) Data from the baptismal records of the Parochial Church of Humahuaca from 1734 to 1810 were grouped into two periods, 1734-72 and 1773-1810.
(3) Nearly all of the world’s religions involve some sort of ritual cleansing by submerging oneself or parts of the body in water, from mikveh to baptism to ablutions.
(4) At the Television Critics Association winter press tour in California last week, Evans admitted rebuilding the show, which makes about £150m a year for the corporation, has been a “baptism of fire”.
(5) In a bid to increase its resources, the almoner’s office last month reasserted the Vatican’s monopoly on the production of papal blessings on parchment, which some Catholics buy to mark special occasions such as baptisms and marriages.
(6) Congregations increase during his time and bereavement and baptism teams are launched.
(7) But after the photo person took my picture, he sent me to another woman, and I handed her the form and my stack of papers, and she just threw my baptism certificate back at me and said it wasn’t valid and I couldn’t get an ID.
(8) A bishop in Sicily has banned known mafia criminals from acting as godfathers at baptisms in churches in his diocese.
(9) It is time to stop calling each other names, time to shun the idea that we should define ourselves by our differences and instead define ourselves by what we hold in common – our baptism into Christ, our dependence on God’s grace, our will to serve the poor and so on.” Co-ordinator of the principal clerk’s office, Very Rev David Arnott, said: “The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland decided today to allow individual kirk sessions the possibility of allowing a nominating committee to consider an application from a minister living in a civil partnership.
(10) In particular, Afghanistan's elite counter-terror teams have come through a baptism of fire after dealing with a series of ever more dangerous and complicated attacks on Kabul in the last year.
(11) For me it’s quite easy to connect because I know where he’s going to be, we’ve got a great understanding and I’m sure it’s only going to get stronger.” A veteran of 33 Merseyside derbies, it was apt that Gerrard’s MLS baptism came in a derby match – albeit between two teams separated by a five-hour drive rather than a five-minute walk.
(12) "It was some baptism of fire, for his first year in charge of a publicly-listed company and his first exposure to the newspaper industry," says a second City source.
(13) Built in traditional stone, it is a popular venue for traditional Greek festivals (including baptisms that take full advantage of the lapping waves on the beach below).
(14) Among the 266 holders of the papacy to date, the current incumbent is the first to take Francis, a flash of re-baptismal originality in a line of succession in which the Johns reach 23, there have been a dozen men called Pius and 13 took the name Innocent.
(15) More evidence is presented: a questionable letter from a grateful patient; Hickman's stewardship at a Charity Ball; the baptism of his children at Shifnal.
(16) I thought that was normal, because I’d never done anything important.” Debicki looks back on her experience of working on her first major studio project as “baptism by fire”.
(17) The move would allow for baptisms and burials, Kaczyński said.
(18) Although they share certain beliefs, such as adult baptism and the separation of church and state, each group is culturally unique.
(19) IMPs computed from baptism closely resembled those for U.S. non-whites after 1950.
(20) The demographic reconstruction is based upon baptismal and marriage records, the administration of demographic proformae and population censuses.
Christendom
Definition:
(n.) The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it.
(n.) The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation.
(n.) That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands.
(n.) The whole body of Christians.
Example Sentences:
(1) So when Heseltine says that continuing as we are is not an option, or when he says that the UK lacks a growth and wealth creation strategy, all the ringcraft in Christendom cannot disguise the fact that he is saying the government is on the wrong course.
(2) In a loaded speech on the House floor last week, Representative Steve King accused President Obama of racial favoritism and " [eroding] western Judeo-Christendom ", unfavorably comparing his congratulatory call to Jason Collins , the newly out NBA player, with strangely unspecified slights against Tim Tebow, "who will kneel and pray to God on the football field."
(3) "The Booker prize has a tendency to drive people a bit mad," he said, not least writers with "hope and lust and greed and expectation" so the best way to stay sane, he said, was by treating it as a lottery until you win "when you realise that the judges are the wisest heads in literary Christendom".
(4) But in populous, rural southern Louisiana, a decidedly various body of believers representative of much of American Christendom argues about how to proceed.
(5) But the larger theme of this great book is "the withering away of the 'master narratives' of European history", from the narrative of Christendom to the narrative of national greatness to the narrative of dialectical materialism.
(6) It’s a last ditch stand to keep the most fundamental of the sex rules of Christendom entrenched in law.
(7) This was known as Christendom and was run from a foreign capital by the pope.
(8) It was a controversial work, in which Wesker’s Shylock bids for his pound of flesh, not as a revenge act against Christian society, but as a joke with his philosemitic friend Antonio, against antisemitic Christendom.
(9) When we took The Steward of Christendom to Liverpool [in 1995], someone said: ‘Thank God you’ve arrived, this is the first new play we’ve seen here in 18 months.’” However, the company had another function.
(10) Bannon differs from other trad Catholics in his relish for the prospect of war between Islam and “Christendom”, and his view of “religious affiliation wholly as a function of ethno-national identity” cross the line into something much darker.
(11) When the transplant fails to work, 5,000 people pray for him in the largest cathedral in Christendom and a Hindu priest holds a vigil for him on the banks of the Ganges.
(12) While the details of our situation will remain appropriately private, I am seeking to be as open and honest in the midst of this decision as I have been in other dramatic moments of my life – coming out in 1986, falling in love, and accepting the challenge of becoming Christendom’s first openly gay priest to be elected a bishop in the historic succession of bishops stretching back to the apostles.” He added: “It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.” Jim Naughton, an advocate for gay rights and co-founder of Canticle Communications, told the Associated Press the "strength, grace and generosity" shown by Robinson and Andrew would “always be a source of inspiration" for Episcopalians and Anglicans seeking acceptance of gay relationships.
(13) One didn’t need especially keen hearing to pick that up as code for 80 million Muslims entering Christendom.
(14) If in the past the demarcation line between the east and west was Christianity and Islam (therefore the long Drang nach Osten or yearning for the east in the medieval times from our western neighbours to "civilise"us by forcing Christendom), later it was between the Roman-Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodoxy, which in this region meant the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth versus Russia.