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名詞

Western Christian (plural Western Christians)

1. (religion, Christianity) An adherent of any form of Western Christianity; a member of a society based on Western Christianity.

   Coordinate term: Eastern Christian

   • 2001, Paul Spickard, Kevin M. Cragg, Gordon William Carlson, A Global History of Christians: How Everyday Believers Experienced Their World, page 343:

     Yet there is inadequate understanding among Western Christians of their own native cultural context.

   • 2009, Thomas S. Kidd, American Christians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism‎, page 75:

     Theological squabbles had begun to affect denominational mission boards by the early 1920s, but among advocates of missions to Muslims, older models assuring Western Christians of Islam's eventual collapse remained dominant.

   • 2013, Michael Burger, The Shaping of Western Civilization, unnumbered page:

     To the east of Christendom lay another Christian society, one that Western Christians regarded as heretical. The Orthodox, sometimes called the Eastern Orthodox, Church did not recognize the authority of the pope, as Western Christians did.