Thus, over the past 1, 500 years, some Christians have used the term Arian to refer to those groups that see themselves as worshiping Jesus Christ or respecting his teachings, but do not hold to the Nicene creed.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

The Latin term Corpus Christianum is often translated as the Christian body, meaning the community of all Christians.

A more secular meaning can denote that the term Christendom refers to Christians considered as a group, the " Political Christian World ", as an informal cultural hegemony that Christianity has traditionally enjoyed in the West.

The term " Catholic " is commonly associated with the whole of the church led by the Roman Pontiff, the Catholic Church, and whose over one billion adherents are about half of the estimated 2. 1 billion Christians.

Many of those who apply the term " Catholic Church " to all Christians object to the use of the term to designate what they view as only one church within what they understand as the " whole " Catholic Church.

This practice is an application of the belief that not all who claim to be Christians are part of the Catholic Church, as Ignatius of Antioch, the earliest known writer to use the term " Catholic Church ", considered that certain heretics who called themselves Christians only seemed to be such.

* Most Reformation and post-Reformation churches use the term Catholic ( often with a lower-case c ) to refer to the belief that all Christians are part of one Church regardless of denominational divisions ; e. g., Chapter XXV of the Westminster Confession of Faith refers to the " catholic or universal Church ".

The term deuterocanonical is sometimes used to describe the canonical antilegomena, those books of the New Testament which, like the deuterocanonicals of the Old Testament, were not universally accepted by the early Church, but which are now included in the 27 books of the New Testament recognized by almost all Christians.

The Christian censorship of the Jewish Talmud in the aftermath of the Disputation of Barcelona and during the Spanish Inquisition and Roman Inquisition, let the term spread within the Jewish classical texts, since the church censors replaced terms like Minim (" sectarians ", coined on the Christians ) with the term Epikorsim or Epicursim, meaning heretics, since the church had heavily persecuted heretics at that time.

Orthodox Christians use the term " Anagignoskomena " ( a Greek word that means " readable ", " worthy of reading ") for the ten books that they accept but that are not in the Protestant 39-book Old Testament canon.

The term Christian egalitarianism is sometimes preferred by those advocating gender equality and equity among Christians who do not wish to associate themselves with the feminist movement.

One use of the term faith healing is in reference to the belief of some Christians that God heals people through the power of the Holy Spirit, often involving the laying on of hands.

Christians may additionally use the term " gospel ", otherwise known as the " good news ", in reference to the general message of the biblical New Testament.

The term gained much currency in the 1940s, promoted by groups which evolved into the National Conference of Christians and Jews, to fight antisemitism by expressing a more inclusive idea of American values rather than just Christian or Protestant.

* Antinomianism, term used to describe those who believe that Christians are not subject to laws

* Judaizers, term used to describe people that taught that Christians must keep the law of Moses

Islam does not refer to itself as " Christian ", asserting that Jesus and all true followers of Christ's teachings were ( and are ) Muslims — a term that means " submitters to God "— not Christians as the term is used today.

Christians called themselves mīlitēs, " enrolled soldiers " of Christ, members of his militant church, and applied to non-Christians the term applied by soldiers to all who were " not enrolled in the army ".

The adoption of paganus by Latin Christians as an all-embracing, pejorative term for polytheists represents an unforeseen and singularly long-lasting victory, within a religious group, of a word of Latin slang originally devoid of religious meaning.

They deny that they in fact rebaptize, saying that Christians are to be baptized only once, but as believers, and they reject the term " Anabaptist " ( i. e. Rebaptizer ) as a description of them.

The term " android " appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-like toy automatons.

The term Animism appears to have been first developed as animismus by German scientist Georg Ernst Stahl, circa 1720, to refer to the " doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

The Hebrew term Abaddon (, ), an intensive form of the word " destruction ", appears as a place of destruction in the Hebrew Bible.

The term abaddon appears six times in the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible ; abaddon means destruction or " place of destruction ", or the realm of the dead, and is associated with Sheol.

The term ahimsa appears in the text Taittiriya Shakha of the Yajurveda ( TS 5. 2. 8. 7 ), where it refers to non-injury to the sacrificer himself.

The term bretwalda also appears in a charter of Æthelstan.

The term or, which gives the ( unnormalised ) relative probability of a state, is called the Boltzmann factor and appears often in the study of physics and chemistry.

It appears that the particular term, with its more definite sense, was coined by Heisenberg in the 1950s, while criticizing alternate " interpretations " ( e. g., David Bohm's ) that had been developed.

The term " West Saxon " appears only in the late seventh century, after the reign of Cædwalla.

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

Here, again, a new term appears in the record, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the first time using the word scottas, from which Scots derives, to describe the inhabitants of Constantine's kingdom in its report of these events.

The signal for formation of a regional centromere appears to be " epigenetic "-a widely used term that in this instance most likely refers to a particular set of post-translational modifications of the histone proteins, or different histone variants being present.

in which the term proportional to the square of the rate of rotation appears on the acceleration side as a " centripetal acceleration ", that is, a negative acceleration term in the direction.

This term appears as the second term in the multipole expansion of an arbitrary electrostatic potential Φ ( r ).

The term dagger appears only in the Late Middle Ages, reflecting the fact that while the dagger had been known in antiquity, it had disappeared during the Early Middle Ages, replaced by the hewing knife or seax.

The Old French term dague appears to have referred to these weapons in the 13th century, alongside other terms such as poignal and basilard.

The term English Civil War appears most commonly in the singular form, although historians often divide the conflict into two or three separate wars.

The name, which can also mean " hard cleft " in Irish, appears in the plural, caladbuilc, as a generic term for " great swords " in the 10th century Irish translation of the classical tale The Destruction of Troy, Togail Troi )

Confusion arises from the introduction of the additional term svartálfar " black elves ", which at first appears synonymous to the " dark elves "; Snorri identifies with the dvergar and has them reside in Svartálfaheim.

However, the term " the Unwashed " with the same meaning, appears in The Parisians: " He says that Paris has grown so dirty since the 4 September, that it is only fit for the feet of the Unwashed.