Meanings
- uncountableChristianityA movement of Victorian origin stressing the need for energetic Christian activism in combination with an ideal of vigorous masculinity.
Yet even though the attempt was made to transform the church and Sunday school along these lines, the ideals of muscular Christianity were perhaps most efficiently diffused through a proliferation of Christian youth organizations for boys.
2001, Priscilla Ferguson Clement, Jacqueline S. Reinier, Boyhood in America, Abc-Clio Incorporated, →ISBNSynonyms: robust Christianity
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA movement of Victorian origin stressing the need for energetic Christian activism in combination with an ideal of vigorous masculinity.
Translations
Portuguese cristianismo muscular
- cristianismo muscularVictorian movement stressing the need for energetic Christian activism and an ideal of vigorous masculinity
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