muscular Christianity

Muscular Christianity spread to other countries in the 19th century.

This argument was also echoed in religious circles with the Muscular Christianity movement.

He characterized the unorthodox actions he took 18 years ago as "muscular Christianity."

He was sent to boarding schools (which included both academic and religious training of the Muscular Christianity sort) from early years.

Still it seemed feeble compared with the heroic display of muscular Christianity we had mustered for war.

Muscular Christianity is a term for a movement originating during the Victorian era.

Muscular Christianity has continued itself through organisations that combine physical and Christian spiritual development.

A commentator said, "All this comes, we fear, of Muscular Christianity."

It falls within the tradition of Muscular Christianity.

The 1820s and 1830s saw the beginning of "Muscular Christianity" in the public schools.

In addition to the beliefs stated above, muscular Christianity preached the spiritual value of sports, especially team sports.

Muscular Christianity was the hoped-for goal, with self-control to be attained through strict mental and physical discipline.

As for the moral angle, I can hardly see that even muscular Christianity can underwrite such a sport.

At the same time, a muscular Christianity took hold in Southern evangelical churches in the first half of the 19th century.

To deal with the violence, middle class promoters spoke in Social Gospel terms about the ideal of "muscular Christianity."

That was underpinned just as much by muscular Christianity as by the Enlightenment.

Muscular Christianity?

Outside of sports, the social and moral agendas behind muscular Christianity influenced numerous reform movements, thus linking it to the political left in Canada.

And the real muscular Christianity is that which pours in a life-giving torrent from the devotion of the heart, receiving only that it may give.

Anti-ritualism and "muscular Christianity"

Adverse reaction to this played a significant role in the evolution of the Broad and Low Church enthusiasm for "muscular Christianity".

At 19:17 18th Dec 2011, stevenhouse wrote: "muscular Christianity style"?

Douglas was a dedicated moralist, an exponent of muscular Christianity, which sought to reinvigorate the church by promoting physical health and manliness.

Secular in theory, it was nonetheless seen as an excellent means of promoting what the preacher Charles Kingsley called "muscular Christianity."

Decades ago, there was a movement called "muscular Christianity"; Mr. Carter preaches strenuous morality.