Christianism

Origin

From Late Latin christianismus, compare French christianisme

Full definition of Christianism

Noun

1. Christian fundamentalism. from 21st c.
• 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.
2. (obsolete) The Christian religion.
3. (obsolete) The Christian world; Christendom.

Related terms

• Christianist
• Christianity