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Christian apologetics
Christian apologetics, also called Christian apologism, is the reasoned defense of Christian beliefs and doctrine, named for the Greek apologia and anchored in 1 Peter 3:15.
Christian atheism
Christian atheism, also called atheistic Christianity, is a form of Christian belief that rejects a transcendent God while keeping Christian language and community, best known from Thomas J. J. Altizer's 1966 book.
Christian August Salig
Christian August Salig (1692–1738) was a German Lutheran church historian and schoolman, conrector of the gymnasium at Wolfenbüttel, best known for his three-part history of the Augsburg Confession and a history of the Council of Trent.
Christian Bartholomae
Christian Bartholomae (1855–1925) was a German linguist and Iranist who compiled the Altiranisches Wörterbuch of 1904, still the basis for work on Avestan, and formulated Bartholomae's law, a rule of phonetic assimilation in Vedic Sanskrit.
Christian Broadcasting Network
The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), founded by Pat Robertson in 1960 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is an American nonprofit Christian media ministry; flagship The 700 Club (1966), CBN News, Superbook, ~$347.5M FY2025 revenue, rated Right by AllSides. Distinguished from Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN security firm, and Christian Biblical Network.
Christian Candy
Christian Candy, born Christian Peter Candy in 1974, is a British property developer who co-founded the Candy businesses with his brother Nick and owns CPC Group.
Christian Chabot
Christian Chabot is a software entrepreneur who co-founded Tableau Software in 2003, led it as chief executive through its 2013 IPO, and stayed until 2016.
Christian child's prayer
A Christian child's prayer is a short, simple, usually fixed prayer taught to children for bedtime, mealtimes, or the start and end of the day.
Christian Church
The Christian Church is the community of all who profess faith in Jesus Christ, understood as local congregations and as one worldwide people of God.
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a mainline American Protestant denomination, formed in 1832 from the Stone-Campbell Movement and known for its weekly, open Lord's Supper.
Christian church of Kongo
The Christian church of Kongo (Nkisi a Kongo) was the Catholic church established in the kingdom of Kongo after King Nzinga Nkuwu accepted baptism from Portuguese priests in 1491.
Christian communism
Christian communism: a Christian political position holding goods should be held in common, grounded in Acts 2 and 4, developed through medieval sects, Kautsky, Engels, and liberation theology.
Christian countercult movement
Christian countercult movement (CCM), also called countercult or discernment ministries: evangelical apologetics groups opposing new religious movements on theological grounds, distinct from the secular anticult; targets include Mormonism and Freemasonry; goals are evangelization and worldview maintenance.
Christian cross
The Christian cross, formed by two intersecting lines, represents the instrument of Jesus's crucifixion and serves as Christianity's central symbol, in forms ranging from the Latin to the Greek cross.
Christian cross variants
Christian cross variants, also called variations of the Christian cross, are the distinct geometric forms of the cross, including the Greek, Latin, tau, and saltire.
Christian deism
Christian deism is a theology held by English thinkers who claimed Jesus' teachings needed no supernatural revelation. Matthew Tindal wrote Christianity as Old as the Creation in 1730.
Christian democracy
Christian democracy: Catholic-rooted European political movement and party family (DC, CDU, EPP), dominant in postwar Western Europe, built on subsidiarity, personalism, and the social market economy.
Christian Democracy (Italy)
Christian Democracy (Italy), or Democrazia Cristiana, was a Catholic political party that dominated Italian politics for the longest period in Western European history, governing until 1994.
Christian Democrat Organization of America
The Christian Democrat Organization of America (ODCA; Organización Demócrata Cristiana de América) is a regional organization of Christian democratic parties in the Americas, founded in Montevideo in 1947.
Christian Democratic Appeal
Christen-Democratisch Appèl (CDA), Dutch Christian democratic party formed from the ARP, CHU and KVP (federation 1975, fusion 1980). Centrist, in government 1977–1994, 2002–2012, from 2017; 18 seats after 2025.
Christian Democratic Party (Australia)
Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group), formerly Call to Australia, was Fred Nile's Australian minor party promoting a 'Christian Commonwealth'; deregistered federally 17 March 2022 after earlier 2001, 2006 deregistrations.
Christian Democratic Party (Chile)
Chilean center party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC), founded 28 July 1957 from the Falange Nacional merger; produced presidents Frei Montalva, Aylwin, and Frei Ruiz-Tagle, led the anti-Pinochet opposition, then collapsed from 26% of the vote in 1989 to 4.2% in 2021.
Christian Democratic Party (El Salvador)
Christian Democratic Party (Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC), Salvadoran Christian democratic party founded in 1960; party of José Napoleón Duarte, president 1984-1989, now a minor registered party.
Christian Democratic Party (Norway)
Kristelig Folkeparti (KrF), Norway's Christian Democratic Party, founded 1933 after Venstre refused to nominate preacher Nils Lavik. Centrist, family-policy-focused; best result 13.7% and 25 seats in 1997 under Bondevik; led by Dag Inge Ulstein since 2024.
Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary)
Kereszténydemokrata Néppárt (KDNP), Hungarian Christian Democratic People's Party, successor of the 1944–1949 Democratic People's Party; Christian democratic junior partner of Fidesz since 2010, in government until the 2026 election.
Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland
The Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (CVP), a Christian-democratic party rooted in political Catholicism, held a Federal Council seat from 1891 until merging into The Centre in 2021.
Christian Democratic Union of Germany
Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (CDU), Germany's center-right interconfessional people's party founded in 1945; sister of the Bavarian CSU; led Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU-SPD government from May 2025, with 2026 state election setbacks.
Christian democratic youth organizations outside Europe
Christian democratic youth organizations outside Europe are the youth wings of Christian democratic parties in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, documented mainly through Chile's Juventud Demócrata Cristiana.
Christian democratic youth wings in the Benelux, France and Switzerland
Christian democratic youth wings in the Benelux, France and Switzerland are party-anchored organizations for young members, notably the Dutch CDJA and Flemish JONGCD&V, both training grounds for national leaders.
Christian Democrats (Sweden)
Kristdemokraterna (KD), Sweden's Christian Democratic party, founded 1964 as Kristen Demokratisk Samling from Free Church circles; entered the Riksdag in 1991, joined every bourgeois government since, and has governed under Ebba Busch since 2022.