Muscular Christianityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

muscular Christianity (uncountable)

1. (Christianity) A movement of Victorian origin stressing the need for energetic Christian activism in combination with an ideal of vigorous masculinity.

   Synonym: robust Christianity

   Coordinate term: muscular Judaism

   • 2001, Priscilla Ferguson Clement, Jacqueline S. Reinier, Boyhood in America, Abc-Clio Incorporated, →ISBN:

     Yet even though the attempt was made to transform the church and Sunday school along these lines, the ideals of muscular Christianity were perhaps most efficiently diffused through a proliferation of Christian youth organizations for boys.

参考

• Sportianity