Definition of christendom Christendom

/kɹɪˈsʌndʌm/ - [krisundum] - Chris•ten•dom

We found 10 definitions of christendom from 6 different sources.

What does christendom mean?

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christendom - the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia); "for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom"
		Christianity
		body the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"
		christian church, church a Protestant church that accepts the Bible as the only source of true Christian faith and practices baptism by immersion

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christendom (n.)
The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it.
christendom (n.)
The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation.
christendom (n.)
That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands.
christendom (n.)
The whole body of Christians.

Christendom, in the widest sense, means Christianity as a territorial phenomenon. That means: those countries where most people are Christians and by that are part of Christendom.

People have used term Christendom for the medieval and renaissance understanding of the Christian world as one single "Body of Christ" with Christ as the head.

With the rise of Modernity and the Reformation during the early 16th century the understandig changed to a modern idea of a tolerant and diverse society that consists of many different communities.