单词 | new birth |
释义 | new birthn. Theology. Chiefly with the. The process or fact of being spiritually reborn; regeneration. Cf. born-again adj. 1a.Now often associated with Evangelical Christianity. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > soul > regeneration > [noun] again-begettingc1384 regenerationa1425 renovationa1425 reparation1447 second birtha1513 new birth1529 gain-birtha1557 regeneracy1620 reawakening1662 renewal1737 rebirth1837 reawakenment1886 rebirthing1969 1529 S. Fish tr. H. Bomelius Summe Holye Script. vi. sig. Dviiv And for this cause thus writeth saint Paule vnto Titus... He hath saved vs by the fonteyne of the newe birth. [margin Titus. 3.] 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Titus iii. 5 He saued vs by the fountayne of the new byrth. 1678 R. Barclay Apol. Quakers (1701) v. §24. 175 The New Birth cometh not by the outward Knowledge of Christ. 1739 J. Wesley Let. 31 July (1931) I. 329 Our coming to Christ..must infer not only an outward change , from stealing, lying, and all corrupt communication, but a thorough change of heart , an inward renewal in the spirit of our mind... The change from the former of these states to the latter is what I call The New Birth. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost i. 16 Baptism confers a new birth. 2002 Church Hist. 71 273 The experience of singing is central to revivalism, the characteristic evangelical ritual mode, and hearing or meditating upon hymns often mediates the new birth, the movement's classic form of spiritual experience. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1529 |
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