| 单词 | muscular christianity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmuscular Christianity 4. figurative. Of Christians, their faith, way of life, etc.: concerned with or devoted to good works and social issues, as opposed to asceticism; (more generally) setting store by the moral benefits of physical exercise; energetic and outgoing. Esp. in muscular Christian, muscular Christianity.Popularly associated with the ideal of robust religious character and Christian life supposedly expressed in the writings of Charles Kingsley, though the term is not his (see quot. 18583). ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > [noun] > muscular muscular Christianity1853 society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > muscular muscular Christian1853 society > faith > sect > Christianity > [adjective] > muscular muscular Christian1970 1853 National Mag. June 552/2 Among the common working people, the modern preacher will find some stern principles, stout prejudices, pithy sayings, large capacities of action, some fine specimens of muscular Christianity. 1858 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 190 It is a school of which Mr. Kingsley is the ablest doctor; and its doctrine has been described fairly and cleverly as ‘muscular Christianity’. The principal characteristics of the writer whose works earned this burlesque though expressive description, are his deep sense of the sacredness of all the ordinary relations and the common duties of life, and the vigour with which he contends..for the great importance and value of animal spirits, physical strength, and a hearty enjoyment of all the pursuits and accomplishments which are connected with them. 1858 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 25 101/1 Here our muscular Christian insinuates that [etc.]. 1858 C. Kingsley Let. 19 Oct. in Lett. & Mem. Life (1883) 213 [To a clergyman who, in a review, had called him ‘a muscular Christian’] You have used that, to me, painful, if not offensive, term, ‘Muscular Christianity’.] 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xiv. 114 Nigel..was also a sportsman. His Christianity was muscular. 1942 J. Lees-Milne Jrnl. 8 Feb. in Ancestral Voices (1975) 18 Eddy..said he had aspirations to muscular Christianity, and with little encouragement would have been coarse. 1966 Listener 27 Oct. 613/2 That muscular Christian, Welldon, who was his [sc. Churchill's] headmaster and housemaster at Harrow. 1970 T. Hilton Pre-Raphaelites v. 133 The tone of the place [sc. the Working Men's College] was heavily muscular-Christian. 1975 J. Blackburn Mister Brown's Bodies xviii. 151 Great hulking fellows... Muscular Christians to a man. 1988 B. Hilton Age of Atonement viii. 332 Carlyle..was steeped in the old corpuscular, not the new muscular, tradition of Christianity. < as lemmas |
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