单词 | church of christ |
释义 | Church of Christn. 1. With the. The Christian Church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > collective holy churchc897 churcheOE brideOE ChristendomOE Christ's churchOE Christianitya1300 motherc1300 brotherheadc1384 Peter's bargea1393 Church of Christc1400 faithfulc1400 body of Christ?1495 congregation1526 husbandry1526 Peter's ship1571 mother church1574 St. Peter's ship1678 Peter's bark1857 Peter's boat1893 priest1897 c1400 Last Age of Church (1840) p. xxv (MED) Þe whiche tribulacioun or angusch schal entre þe Chirche of Crist in þe tyme of þe hundrid ȝeer of K lettre. c1456 R. Pecock Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 276 Thou woldist putte a successive aggregate of alle the apostlis and of alle Cristen men, whiche ever weren, ben, and schulen be, to be the chirche of Crist. a1500 ( J. Lydgate tr. Life St. Alban & St. Amphibal (Lansd.) (1974) l. 824 (MED) Ther wern indeede..Bi cristis lawe turnyd bi myracle To the noumbre thousandis ful sixtene To the chirche of Crist. 1585 T. Bilson True Difference Christian Subiection i. 75 Grant thee not at euery..request, lest we seem to bring the smoky pride of the world into the Church of Christ. 1645 Bp. J. Hall Peace-maker iii. 14 There is one and the same Church of Christ; however farre disterminate in places..however differing in rites and circumstances of worship. 1749 J. Heylyn Select Disc. Points of Relig. xvi. 125 in Theol. Lect. at Westminster-Abbey Those who do not save themselves from it by withdrawing from the corrupt Age we live in..are not yet living Members of the Church of Christ. 1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church Pref. p. iv Unity and intercommunion of the various branches of the visible church of Christ. 1931 A. C. McGiffert Protestant Thought before Kant i. 18 The predestinated who constitute the true Church of Christ are known to nobody but God. 1992 Door Apr. 1/1 For once, all denominational barriers fell away and we were joyfully proclaiming our membership of the one Church of Christ. 2. As a count noun: a Christian church or denomination. Frequently in names, esp. (in plural) as the name of an association of Congregational churches, originating in the early 19th cent. and found chiefly in the United States, which emphasize the role of the New Testament as the source of Christian doctrine and practice. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Congregationalist > American Church of Christa1500 New England theology1839 a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 219 (MED) Boneface..gate graunted þe temple of Rome to be made in an chirche of Crist. 1581 W. Allen Apol. Two Eng. Colleges f. 74 Al the Churches of Christ through al ages. 1641 J. Etherington Def. Iohn Etherington 25 Etherington hath..held and published..that the Church of England as it is here by Law established, is no true Church of Christ. 1728 J. Danforth Two Vast Enjoyments Commemorated 1 in Serm. Occasioned by Late Great Earthquake The Reverend Mr Peter Thacher Pastor of the Church of Christ in Milton. 1829 A. Dupree Let. 21 Aug. in Unitarian Chron. (1833) Feb. 39/1 The brethren and friends of the north-western section of this state [Georgia], having solicited me to inform you of the present situation of the churches of Christ among us. 1865 New Englander & Yale Rev. Apr. 406 His name should be remembered and honored, not by the Baptist Churches only, but by all the Churches of Christ in our country. 1905 Advance 30 Nov. 640/1 The name of the body shall be the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. 1930 Times 8 Oct. 9/5 No office is recognized in the Church of Christ higher than that of the teaching or preaching Presbyter thus ordained. 2005 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 23 July Musical instruments are not used in worship, which generally makes Churches of Christ good at a cappella singing. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1400 |
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