muscular Christianity
English
Noun
muscular Christianity (uncountable)
- (Christianity) A movement of Victorian origin stressing the need for energetic Christian activism in combination with an ideal of vigorous masculinity.
- 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.
Translations
Victorian movement stressing the need for energetic Christian activism and an ideal of vigorous masculinity
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