Western Christian

adjective

Of or pertaining to Western Christianity.

Meanings

adjectiveWestern Christian (not comparable)
  1. not comparableChristianityOf or pertaining to Western Christianity.
nounWestern Christian (plural Western Christians)

plural Western Christians

  1. ChristianityAn adherent of any form of Western Christianity; a member of a society based on Western Christianity.

    Yet there is inadequate understanding among Western Christians of their own native cultural context.

    2001, Paul Spickard, Kevin M. Cragg, Gordon William Carlson, A Global History of Christians: How Everyday Believers Experienced Their World, page 343
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    Theological squabbles had begun to affect denominational mission boards by the early 1920s, but among advocates of missions to Muslims, older models assuring Western Christians of Islam's eventual collapse remained dominant.

    2009, Thomas S. Kidd, American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism, page 75

    To the east of Christendom lay another Christian society, one that Western Christians regarded as heretical. The Orthodox, sometimes called the Eastern Orthodox, Church did not recognize the authority of the pope, as Western Christians did.

    2013, Michael Burger, The Shaping of Western Civilization, unnumbered page
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