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Indeed it is contrast with the world that determines the signification of the term Christian.
The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I. 1872-1939 1903
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The weakness of the Church in recent years is due in part, I doubt not, to the acceptance into its membership of numbers who were, properly speaking, monotheistic, but not in the complete sense of the term Christian.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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What is all religion, if God be not the author of it and, if the Papists say true, we can never be sure, that God is the author of that which we call Christian.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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"I never had anybody talk to me so before," said Hal with a confused look; "but I take it, I a'n't what you call a Christian."
The Boy Patriot Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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If as Glen Beck suggests, we run from doing justice, we do not deserve the name Christian.
Texas Faith: Should government practice social justice? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010
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Christians are pummeled regularly for not being Christ-like enough in their behavior to warrant the name Christian.
TEXAS FAITH: Misunderstanding (my) religion | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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My grandparents have never been church goers, but they identify as Christian.
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Taft on Unitarian Faith, below true for me but I would drop the word Christian.
Taft on Unitarian Faith Bill Baar 2006
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Next, he upbraids the Christians with lack of unity among themselves; so many sects are there, and so different, that they have nothing common save the name Christian.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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This eunuch had rescued her from death and brought her up, failing, however, to obey an angel's command to have her baptized a Christian.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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