单词 | judaeo-christian |
释义 | Judaeo-ChristianJudeo-Christianadj.n. A. adj. 1. Chiefly Church History. Designating a church or community consisting of Jews who have become Christians, esp. while retaining many characteristic Jewish traditions and practices; belonging to or characteristic of such a church or community.Used esp. with reference to the very early Christian church prior to its spread among Gentiles, or to groups in the early church who in various ways resisted the loss or dilution of its Jewish identity. Cf. Messianic adj. 1b. ΚΠ 1821 A. McCaul Let. 17 Oct. in Jewish Expositor Dec. 478/1 A Judæo Christian community, a city of refuge, where all who wish to be baptized could be supplied with the means of earning their bread. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 406 This enthronement of the souls of the Gentile and Judæo-Christian Martyrs. 1867 C. F. Schaeffer tr. G. V. Lechler & C. Gerok Acts 392/1 in P. Schaff et al. tr. J. P. Lange et al. Comm. Holy Script.: N. T. IV. The Gentile church, which the apostle had founded, had just been cordially saluted by the Judæo-Christian church. 1919 H. Rashdall Idea of Atonem. Christian Theol. 487 The Gentile Churches took over the sacraments and the elementary ideas about them from the Judaeo-Christian Church. 1957 Musical Q. 43 21 The same isolationist trend appears later in the early Judaeo-Christian Church. 2006 G. Vermes Nativity iii. 27 The doctrine embraced by the Ebionites, a Judeo-Christian community which survived well into the third/fourth century. 2. Designating those religious, ethical, or cultural values or beliefs regarded as being common to both Judaism and Christianity; of, relating to, or holding these shared values or beliefs. Also more generally: relating to or characteristic of both Judaism and Christianity. ΚΠ 1881 Dickinson's Theol. Q. Jan. 114/2 They have learned in their studies that pure and complete theism never existed, in a general manner, save in the Judeo-Christian tradition. 1899 Lit. Guide 1 Oct. 146/1 The total abandonment of the Judæo-Christian ‘continuity’ theory. 1939 New Eng. Weekly 27 July 237/2 The Judaeo-Christian scheme of morals. 1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 145 The appearance of the Judaeo-Christian deity in fire. 1987 V. Mollenkott Godding vi. 95 America, predominantly a Judeo-Christian nation, is for the most part biblically illiterate. 2006 N.Y. Mag. 15 May 82/3 First Things..argues for the reintroduction of Judeo-Christian values into the public arena. B. n. 1. Church History. A member of a Judaeo-Christian church or community (see sense A. 1). ΚΠ 1837 T. G. Repp tr. F. Lücke Comm. Epist. St. John 70 It might, indeed, appear that the true Messiahship of Jesus was really denied by the narrow-minded Judæo-Christians [Ger. Judenchristen]. 1886 Expositor 4 168 We must suppose..that these Judæo-Christians at Colossæ..were under other influences than those of the law of Moses alone. 1975 G. Vermes Post-biblical Jewish Stud. iv. 38 Palestinian Jewry had disintegrated into the separate and rival groups of Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes, to which were added in the first century of the Christian era Zealots and Judeo-Christians. 2002 Dumbarton Oaks Papers 56 65 Aside from the possible veneration of these sites by Judeo-Christians from the earliest times, there is practically no evidence of a similar regard toward the other biblical sites on the part of the Christian community of the first three centuries. 2. A person belonging to the Jewish and Christian traditions regarded collectively; a person having Judaeo-Christian values or beliefs (see sense A. 2); (in plural) Jews and Christians collectively. ΚΠ 1954 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 3 June 14/3 The intellectual and moral monuments of the Greeks, the Romans, the Judeo-Christians, and our contemporary thinkers. 1985 E. Scarry Body in Pain (1987) iv. 277 The intent here is not to credit Judeo-Christianity in the eyes of those who trust Marx's historical description, nor to credit Marx in the eyes of Judeo-Christians. 2012 R. Breton Different Gods iv. 79 In general, there is a lower level of religiosity..among Judeo-Christians than among Muslims and members of other Eastern religions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1821 |
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