单词 | faith community |
释义 | > as lemmasfaith community faith community n. (a) a community of people of the same religion; spec. a group of people leading a communal life according to their religious faith; (b) people with religious faith collectively. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > [noun] > a community > other types of community churchOE phalanx1602 republic1610 phalanstery1839 faith community1896 technocracy1925 plural community1939 Dogpatch1946 discourse community1972 1896 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 23 Dec. Beginning with the primitive Christians, who ‘took no thought for the morrow,’ there have been many of these faith communities. 1979 Harvard Theol. Rev. 72 13 The relation of the theologian to the faith community is analogous to that of the scientist to the human community. 1992 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 25 Oct. h2 The faith community could play an important role in keeping Atlanta peaceful and in moving it toward racial justice. 2013 Church Times 25 Jan. 37/3 Newell is writing from New Harmony, Indiana, where a faith community has been built on the foundations of a 19th-century Christian utopian experiment. < as lemmas |
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