Definition of Christian era. Meaning of Christian era. Synonyms of Christian era

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Definition of Christian era

Christian era
Christian Chris"tian, a. 1. Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people. 3. Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. --Blackstone. 4. Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. The graceful tact; the Christian art. --Tennyson. Christian Commission. See under Commission. Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court. Christian era, the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error of a monk (Dionysius Exiguus, d. about 556) employed to calculate the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894. Christian name, the name given in baptism, as distinct from the family name, or surname.

Meaning of Christian era from wikipedia

- inclusive of non-Christian people is to call this the Common Era (abbreviated as CE), with the preceding years referred to as Before the Common Era (BCE). Astronomical...
- refer to the Christian Era, it was sometimes qualified, e.g., "common era of the Incarnation", "common era of the Nativity", or "common era of the birth...
- Christian era may refer to the time since Christianisation in any given regional context. Early Christianity decline of Greco-Roman paganism Ancient Roman...
- that these are its two forms. — Plato's Statesman, 258e In the ****enistic era the term became ****ociated with the mystery cults. In the Acts of Thomas...
- numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox churches have their own Christian eras). In antiquity, regnal years...
- ****cution of Christians from 1989 to the present is part of a global pattern of religious ****cution. In this era, the ****cution of Christians is taking...
- Post-Western era Postmodern Reformation Post-theism Secular movement A New Christianity for a New World by John Shelby Spong "Our Post-Christian Society"...
- the Anno Domini (AD) Christian calendar era, and the 1st year of the 1st century and 1st millennium of the Christian or Common Era (CE). In the Roman Empire...
- up era in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in...
- features. The evolution of Russian given names dates back to the pre-Christian era, though the list of common names changed drastically after the adoption...