英语词汇muscular christianity的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

muscular Christianity. This expression has nothing to do with the spread of Christianity by force, as some people think. An anonymous admirer so named Charles Kingsley’s brand of religion in the middle of the 19th century; the reverend taught that Christianity should be hearty and strong-minded in order to help one “fight the battle of life bravely and man- fully.” Reverend Kingsley himself found the term “painful if not offensive,” but it didn’t need his approval. Dickens’s amia- ble canon Mr. Crisparkle in the unfinished The Mystery of Ed- win Drood is a good example of the type in literature. Kings- ley, an advocate of social reform, is famous for his novels Westward Ho! and Water Babies.

词汇	muscular christianity
词源	muscular Christianity. This expression has nothing to do with the spread of Christianity by force, as some people think. An anonymous admirer so named Charles Kingsley’s brand of religion in the middle of the 19th century; the reverend taught that Christianity should be hearty and strong-minded in order to help one “fight the battle of life bravely and man- fully.” Reverend Kingsley himself found the term “painful if not offensive,” but it didn’t need his approval. Dickens’s amia- ble canon Mr. Crisparkle in the unfinished The Mystery of Ed- win Drood is a good example of the type in literature. Kings- ley, an advocate of social reform, is famous for his novels Westward Ho! and Water Babies.
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