Some have seen revivalism and the search for Christian perfection as the fountain-head of the American hope.

Christian perfection ( or entire sanctification ), according to Wesley, is " purity of intention, dedicating all the life to God " and " the mind which was in Christ, enabling us to walk as Christ walked.

Wesley was clear that Christian perfection did not imply perfection of bodily health or an infallibility of judgment.

Most modern eschatology and apocalypticism, both religious and secular, involves the violent disruption or destruction of the world, whereas Christian and Jewish eschatologies view the end times as the consummation or perfection of God's creation of the world.

In his book, Andreae shows an utopic island in which Christian theosophy and applied science ruled, and in which the spiritual fulfillment and intellectual activity constituted the primary goals of each individual, the scientific pursuits being the highest intellectual calling – linked to the achievement of spiritual perfection.

The encyclical acknowledges that " perhaps not everyone will easily accept this particular teaching ", but points out that the Roman Catholic Church cannot " declare lawful what is in fact unlawful ", because she is concerned with " safeguarding the holiness of marriage, in order to guide married life to its full human and Christian perfection.

To these last 34 years of his career belong the most important of his works ; his version of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew text, the best of his scriptural commentaries, his catalogue of Christian authors, and the dialogue against the Pelagians, the literary perfection of which even an opponent recognized.

The temperance movement appealed strongly to the Methodist doctrines of sanctification and Christian perfection.

The strict norms governing their lives are meant to make them models of Christian perfection for lay people, he writes in.

The grace of sanctification draws one toward the gift of Christian perfection, which Wesley described as a heart " habitually filled with the love of God and neighbor " and as " having the mind of Christ and walking as he walked.

As a Trinitarian and fundamental church, their doctrinal position centers on a born-again experience, supports the Wesleyan teaching of holiness ( Christian perfection ), and stresses the need of sanctified believers to receive the Pentecostal experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

In his clerical vocation as cardinal Bembo is credited with reaffirming and promoting the Christian perfection of classical humanism.

Medieval illuminated manuscripts circulated with colorful schemas for developing proper attitudes, with scriptural allusions modelled on nature: the tree of virtues as blossoming flowers or vices bearing sterile fruit, The Renaissance writer Pietro Bembo is credited with reaffirming and promoting the Christian perfection of classical humanism.

The Christian fall of Lucifer is thought of as especially terrible, as angels are wholly spirit, yet Lucifer defied God, the ultimate perfection.

* Christian perfection, doctrine associated with John Wesley

He also requested the opinion of Ubertino of Casale, a renowned Spiritual leader ( 1328 ), who, with a fine-spun distinction, declared on 28 March 1322 that Christ and the Apostles did possess property, inasmuch as they governed the Church, but not as individuals or as exemplars of Christian perfection.

Jones and Mason were licensed Baptist ministers in Mississippi in the 1890s who were disfellowshiped by the local Baptist association for preaching the doctrine of Christian perfection also known as " Holiness.

As men reach the full development of their nature, and appropriate the perfection of the Saviour, the separation between the religious and the moral life will vanish, and the Christian state, as the highest sphere of human life representing all human functions, will displace the church.

John Wesley in 1766 postulated the concept of Christian perfection, a moment in the life of a Christian at which the regeneration effectuated by the Holy Spirit results in a " perfection in love " which means that at least at that moment one is being motivated wholly by love of God and neighbor, with no taint of sin or ulterior motives in effect.

* Bertrand Russell, ( 1779 – 2009 ) Why I Am Not a Christian, ISBN 0-671-20323-1

* 1577 – Christian IV of Denmark and Norway ( d. 1648 )

* 1329 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII ; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.

* 1983 – Christian Müller, German footballer

Saint Joseph, Abbot of Volokolamsk ( 1439 – 1515 ), wrote a number of influential works against heresy, and about monastic and liturgical discipline, and Christian philanthropy.

* 1998 – Rozz Williams, American musician ( Christian Death, Shadow Project, and Premature Ejaculation ) ( b. 1963 )

AD 250 – 336 ), a Christian presbyter in Alexandria, Egypt, concerning the relationship of the persons of the Trinity (' God the Father ', ' God the Son ' ( Jesus of Nazareth ), and ' God the Holy Spirit ') and the precise nature of the Son of God as being a subordinate entity to God the Father.

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

* 1777 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist ( d. 1851 )

* 1947 – Peter Christian, English actor

* 1985 – Christian Gentner, German footballer

* 1882 – Christian Mortensen, Danish-American super-centenarian ( d. 1998 )

* 1961 – Christian Okoye, American football player

* 1503 – Christian III of Denmark ( d. 1559 )

* 1958 – Christian LeBlanc, American actor

* 1974 – Christian Beranek, American actor, writer, and producer

* Afonso I of Kongo ( 1456 – 1543 ) the first Christian king of the Kingdom of Kongo

* 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer ( d. 1875 )

* 1938 – Christian Müller, German footballer

* 966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.

* 1976 – Christian Älvestam, Swedish singer-songwriter and musician ( Scar Symmetry, Miseration, and Solution. 45 )

* 1990 – Christian Alexander, American actor

* 1997 – Gerda Christian, German secretary ( b. 1913 )

* 1858 – The Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.