Christian Church
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈkrɪs.tʃən tʃɜːrtʃ/
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Iglesia cristiana
- She was baptized by immersion in the Christian Church to embrace her faith fully.
- Christian Church (Disciples)
- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
- Early Christian Church
Examples
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Rev. Ryan J. Muehlhauser was a pastor and counselor at Lakeside Christian Church in Cambridge, Minnesota.
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The new organization was to be called the Christian Church of Canada and was to serve as a district branch of the Christian Church of North America (CCNA), the newly restructured Italian-American Pentecostal body first organized in 1927.
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Thus, the Christian Church was able to operate within the laws of Roman society.
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This is Pastor Dave Stone of Southeast Christian Church.
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The Spirit does this by gathering the Christian Church, which is the sign and instrument of the sanctifying Spirit.
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Subsequently, several of them were ordained as bishops for the newly established Christian Church.
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In the first century of the Christian Church, the Order of Deaconesses was formed and resembled today's public health service or visiting nurses.
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The U.C.C. and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) were in serious conversations about a deeper commitment to church union.
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Saint Paula, a major figure in the development of female monasticism in the Early Christian Church, was a wealthy patrician in late fourth-century Rome.
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Taking it all in, as well, was a thirty-six-year-old American delegate, a minister in the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, Charles Clayton Morrison.
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
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2.8
A Protestant church where people who choose to join are often fully washed under water as a sign of faith
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6.8
A Protestant Christian group that uses the Bible as its only guide and baptizes by full immersion
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'Christian' and 'church' will readily understand this refers to a church associated with Christianity, so the core referent is compositionally transparent. However, the specific doctrinal qualifications in the given definition (Protestant orientation, sola scriptura, baptism by immersion) are encyclopedic details not derivable from the constituents, so the full sense is only partially predictable without extra knowledge.
Etymology
Christian Church simply puts together Christian (a follower of Christ) and Church (a place where people meet to worship). Some Protestant groups chose this plain name to show they followed only the Bible and practiced 'baptism by immersion', so today it usually means a Protestant church with those beliefs.