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post-ˈChristian, a. and n.
[post- B. 1 b.]
A. adj.
a. Subsequent to the lifetime of Christ, or to the rise of Christianity.
b. Subsequent to the decline or rejection of Christianity.
1864Pusey Lect. Daniel ix. 542 Literature,..collected in post-Christian times by the Sassanidæ. 1888T. K. Cheyne et al. Bible (Variorum Teacher's ed.) (1893) Pref., The vowel-points merely represent a valuable, but still post-Christian, exegetical tradition. 1929H. Keyserling Amer. set Free ii. 583 This is not a pre-Christian, but a post-Christian state. 1945Downside Rev. LXIII. 201 He exemplifies that paralysis from which post-Christian philosophy is suffering. 1956K. Clark Nude iii. 109 The yearning for another world had entered the post-Christian spirit. 1974Listener 24 Jan. 121/3 Heliogabalus..reduced Rome to a kind of post-Christian Sodom and Gomorrah.
B. n. A person in a nominally Christian society who has no professed religion.
1946Downside Rev. LXIV. 117 Or we may have wondered for whom the book was written, for Mgr Knox addresses sometimes the post-Christian, sometimes the ‘Sunday Mass’ Catholic and sometimes his fellow priests. 1958Spectator 4 July 10/3 A generation of men and women who have grown up completely outside institutional Christianity. They are not lapsed Christians... But neither are they formal agnostics. They are best defined as post-Christians. 1961Christian Century 18 Jan. 80/2 Australian Catholics sincerely believe that their countrymen would be better off as Catholics than as post-Christians. |