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Christian Schwarzenegger
Christian Schwarzenegger, Swiss criminal law and criminology professor at the University of Zurich, its Vice President Faculty Affairs since 2014, stepping down 31 July 2026 to become Universitas 21 provost; not the Augsburg media scholar of the same name.
Christian Science
Christian Science is a religious movement and denomination, formally the Church of Christ, Scientist, founded by Mary Baker Eddy and centered on healing through prayer rather than medicine.
Christian Sinding
Christian Sinding is a Norwegian private-equity executive who served as CEO and Managing Partner of EQT from 2019 to 2025, during which the firm listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
Christian Social Party (Austria)
The Christian Social Party (German: Christlichsoziale Partei, CSP) was a Catholic, conservative Austrian mass party founded in the 1890s under Karl Lueger, dissolved into the Fatherland Front in 1934.
Christian Social People's Party
The Christian Social People's Party (Parti Chrétien-Social) is a Christian democratic, center-right political party in Luxembourg and the country's largest party, in government under Prime Minister Luc Frieden.
Christian Social Union in Bavaria
Christian Social Union in Bavaria (Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern, CSU), Bavaria-only sister party of Germany's CDU, founded 1945/46, joint Bundestag group with CDU, governed Bavaria almost continuously since 1946.
Christian socialism
Christian socialism: religious and political tradition holding Christ's teachings lead to socialism. Also called the Christian Socialist movement, social Christianity. Founded by F. D. Maurice's 1850 Anglican group; includes Catholic social teaching, the Social Gospel, and liberation theology.
Christian state
Christian state: a state officially recognizing Christianity via a state religion or established church, sometimes with the monarch as church head; distinct from theocracy, declining in number, contrasted with secular and Blaine-amendment arrangements.
Christian Stocker
Christian Stocker is an Austrian lawyer and politician who served as Federal Chancellor since March 2025, forming the country's first three-party coalition since 1947.
Christian support of Donald Trump
Christian support of Donald Trump is the electoral backing Trump received from Christian voters, especially white evangelicals, since 2016, with 81% of their votes in that election.
Christian supremacy
Christian supremacy, also called Christian supremacist ideology, holds that Christians are entitled to dominate politics, law, and culture, overlapping with but distinct from Christian nationalism.
Christian symbolism
Christian symbolism, also called symbols of Christianity, is the use of images, objects, colors, and gestures to carry religious meaning, with earliest evidence from the late second century.
Christian Tell
Christian Tell (1808–1884) was a Transylvanian-born Wallachian and Romanian general and politician who co-founded Frăția, served in the 1848 revolutionary government, and later held ministerial office.
Christian terrorism
Christian terrorism: terrorism by actors claiming Christian motivations, often fundamentalist; includes Oklahoma City bombers, Norway 2011 attacker, anti-abortion violence; contested within religious-terrorism scholarship.
Christian theology
Christian theology, also called Christian doctrine, is the systematic and critical study of Christian faith, from the doctrine of God to creation, salvation, and the church.
Christian theosophy
Christian theosophy is a visionary current of Western Christian thought, founded on Jacob Boehme, seeking knowledge of God, nature, and the soul by inner seeing.
Christian Union (Netherlands)
The Christian Union (ChristenUnie, CU) is a Dutch orthodox-Protestant-rooted Christian-social party founded in 2000 from the GPV and RPF merger; conservative on medical ethics, center-left on welfare, environment, and migration; three seats after 2025.
Christian views on alcohol
Christian views on alcohol range from historic acceptance of moderate drinking to required total abstinence, with the Latter-day Saints and Seventh-day Adventist Church requiring abstinence as a condition of membership.
Christian views on divorce
Christian views on divorce cover how traditions interpret Matthew's porneia exception clause, Mark and Luke's exceptionless prohibition, and 1 Corinthians 7, producing Catholic indissolubility with annulment, Orthodox penitential remarriage, and varied Protestant grounds.
Christian views on Hades
Christian views on Hades, also called Hades in Christianity, cover interpretations of the New Testament abode of the dead, the Greek equivalent of Sheol, occurring ten times in the New Testament.
Christian views on homosexuality
Christian views on homosexuality range from the Catholic and Orthodox position that same-sex acts are intrinsically disordered to affirming denominations like the United Church of Christ that celebrate same-sex marriage.
Christian views on marriage
Christian views on marriage, also called Christian marriage, are the teachings of Christian traditions on marriage's nature, validity, and whether divorce and remarriage are possible.
Christian views on masturbation
Christian views on masturbation are the teachings of Christian traditions and theologians on the act, which the Bible never directly addresses; Catholic teaching calls it gravely disordered, while some Protestant writers treat it as morally neutral.
Christian views on sin
Christian views on sin, also called sin in Christianity, define sin as an offense against God's law, with original sin, mortal and venial sin, and ancestral sin as key doctrines.
Christian views on slavery
Christian views on slavery: the New Testament urged slaves to obey masters while preaching spiritual equality; early and medieval churches accepted and regulated slavery, churches supported the transatlantic trade, and abolitionism later drew on the same faith.
Christian views on suicide
Christian views on suicide: the Bible is silent on it, Augustine and Aquinas built the prohibition, medieval churches denied burial, and modern Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant teaching stresses diminished responsibility and compassionate pastoral care.
Christian Walker (media personality)
Christian Walker (born 1999) is an American conservative social media personality, podcast host, and son of Herschel Walker, known for Starbucks drive-through political rants and his October 2022 public denunciation of his father's Senate campaign.
Christian Wilhelm Adolf Redenbacher
Christian Wilhelm Adolf Redenbacher (1800–1876) was a Bavarian Lutheran pastor and popular religious writer whose 1843 address Simon von Cana urged Protestant soldiers to defy the Catholic genuflection order, costing him his pastorate.
Christian Wilhelm Niedner
Christian Wilhelm Niedner (1797–1865) was a German Protestant church historian who edited the Zeitschrift für historische Theologie and wrote the source-based textbook Geschichte der christlichen Kirche (1846).
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth (1885-1944), German SS-Sturmbannführer and Kriminalkommissar; T4 euthanasia office chief, first Belzec commandant and Inspector of the Operation Reinhard camps Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka; killed by partisans near Trieste in 1944.