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religionless, a.|rɪˈlɪdʒənlɪs|
[f. as prec. + -less.]
A. adj. Destitute of religion. religionless Christianity [tr. G. religionsloses Christentum], Christianity dissociated from many of the doctrines and practices of conventional religion.
1750Warburton Julian ii. 192 The gross body of the Jews..returned home religionless as they came. 1829J. H. Newman Lett. (1891) I. 204 The upper classes will be left almost religionless. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xiv, A worldly, selfish,..religionless old woman. 1889J. Strong in Minutes Congreg. Council (U.S.) 364 Teaching a religionless morality. 1953R. H. Fuller tr. Bonhoeffer's Lett. & Papers from Prison v. 123 If religion is no more than the garment of Christianity—and even that garment has had very different aspects at different periods—then what is a religionless Christianity? 1963Times 7 May 13/4 Archbishop Heenan is reported in today's Sunday press to have said that Anglican discussions about religionless Christianity are an embarrassment to Roman Catholics who work for Christian unity. 1969A. Richardson Dict. Chr. Theol. 288/2 It is in the light of Barth's denunciation of religion that Bonhoeffer's plea for ‘religionless Christianity’, by which he meant unpietistic, unchurchy Christianity, should be understood. 1974Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. (ed. 2) 187/1 Though writers of the Death of God school have taken up his [sc. Bonhoeffer's] idea of religionless Christianity, his teaching represents a search for the beyond in the midst, and a demand for a radical reform of the Church, which in its existing form he thought to have no message for the present day. 1977Church Times 29 Apr. 6/4 Nor is it one of the newer-style jobs in which the intransigent element in Christian faith is dissolved away in..religionless Christianity.
B. as n. collect., people without religious belief.
1964New Statesman 14 Feb. 254/3 Literature which Arnold was quite right to suggest would come to occupy the importance of religion for the religionless. |