(n.) One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ.
(n.) One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.
(n.) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites.
(n.) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.
(a.) Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.
(a.) Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court.
(a.) Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(2) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(3) Photograph: Jared Malsin for The Guardian They are among at least seven Egyptians – six Christians and one Muslim – who are believed to be held hostage in Libya, though that is regarded as a conservative estimate.
(4) In previous years, Ukip members have sought a more traditional Christian basis for RE.
(5) There are Christians coming from Syria, it doesn’t matter who it is, we would help anybody.
(6) The report was published on the same day that the charity Christians Against Poverty said it expects its free debt counselling service to experience its busiest day on record.
(7) The retreat of government forces had left tens of thousands exposed to the savagery of Isis, especially those from the country's minorities, including Christians and members of the Yazidi sect.
(8) The strikes “without a doubt put communitarian peace in danger,” Hendrik Bogaert, a Flemish Christian Democrat MP, told Le Soir.
(9) It is home to most of the country's five million Muslims, but Christians remain the overall majority.
(10) The main Absolute Radio station, which features presenters including breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell, Frank Skinner and Dave Gorman, had an average weekly reach of 1.375 million listeners in the final quarter of last year, down 16.9% on the previous quarter and 7.9% year on year.
(11) "It was a great debut for Christian," said the Spurs manager.
(12) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(13) There has been no shortage of accusations of widespread war crimes and crimes against humanity against Christian and other minorities in eastern Myanmar and a slow but systematic genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar.
(14) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(15) Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport .
(16) Asked why Muslims had been singled out, rather than followers of other faiths, Batten said: "Christians aren't blowing people up at the moment, are they?
(17) With Christian Eriksen peripheral on the left and Aaron Lennon well policed, the responsibility to unlock Everton came to rest on Dembélé.
(18) It seems that Pfeiffer-Weber-Christian disease and nodular panniculitis with liquefaction are varying expressions of the same disease entity.
(19) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
(20) Boko Haram spies spread the rumour that she refused to covert from Christianity to Islam.
Theist
Definition:
(n.) One who believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes in a personal God; -- opposed to atheist.
Example Sentences:
(1) He had the bells play John Lennon's anti-theist song Imagine as part of an arts festival, which shocked some people but helped to restore the sense that the cathedral was connected to the city's imagination.
(2) Just a week ago, Craig Hicks, an apparently militant anti-theist murdered three American Muslim college students in Chapel Hill; the FBI and local law enforcement have opened an inquiry into the possibility that it was a hate crime .
(3) I’m an anti-theist, not an atheist … I’ve been forced to confront it by meeting people morally superior to myself, braver than myself, who live in terrible countries, or very dangerous situations, and do witness in a wonderful way for the rights of others, and are self-sacrificing.
(4) When he was president, Thomas Jefferson, a fervent theist, told a group of Baptist ministers government had no business meddling in religion.