muscular Christianity

English

Noun

muscular Christianity (uncountable)

1. (Christianity) A movement of Victorian origin stressing the need for energetic Christian activism in combination with an ideal of vigorous masculinity.
   • 2001, Priscilla Ferguson Clement, Jacqueline S. Reinier, Boyhood in America, Abc-Clio Incorporated, →ISBN:

     Yet even though the attempt was made to transform the church and Sunday school along these lines, the ideals of muscular Christianity were perhaps most efficiently diffused through a proliferation of Christian youth organizations for boys.

Translations

Victorian movement stressing the need for energetic Christian activism and an ideal of vigorous masculinity

• Portuguese: cristianismo muscular m

See also

• Sportianity