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  • adjective Without Christ or the Christian faith; unchristian.

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Christ +‎ -less

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Examples

  • But though the book has been called Christless, prayerless, hopeless, no mature person ever reads it without a deepened sense of the impotence of all mechanistic theories of sin, and a new vision of the intense reality of spiritual things.

    The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907

  • Then passing by altogether the other idea which I said was only doubtfully suggested by the words -- namely, that of laceration and wounding -- let me say a word about the last of the aspects of humanity when Christless, which is set forth in this text, and that is, the dejected weariness arising from the fruitless wanderings wherewith men are cursed.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • My dog sticks his nose in the nail polish and I breathe and everything goes back to normal again; I'm Christless.

    I Draw a Map Amanda Deo 2011

  • "Christmas is being marginalized every day of the year, when pastors fail to preach who Christ really was," says Michael Horton, who blasts these trends in his new book, Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church.

    Where is Christ in Christmas? 2008

  • Michael Horton's Christless Christianity and Frank Turek's latest battle cry on crossexamined. org exemplifies the panic this is already inducing among the older generation of conservatives.

    Interview with Richard Carrier 2009

  • One of the many books that my husband brought home from the Gospel Coalition conference in April was Michael Horton's "Christless Christianity."

    Archive 2009-05-01 Sara 2009

  • One of the many books that my husband brought home from the Gospel Coalition conference in April was Michael Horton's "Christless Christianity."

    Christless Christianity Sara 2009

  • … May we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance!

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • … May we who know Christ hear the cry of the damned as they hurtle headlong into the Christless night without ever a chance!

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Christless men, and Godless men, and hopeless men, -- and what greater distress in the world?

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

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