Muscular Christianity

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	The practice and opinion of those Christians who believe that it is a part of religious duty to maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as conductive to good health, good morals, and right feelings in religious matters. - T. Hughes.
	An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. - T. Hughes.

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No references found			Peter Lupson, 62, is a keen member of the Longcroft Christian Fellowship, in Barnston, Wirral, who fervently believes that sport can help young people develop a sense of fair play and a deeper understanding of decent social values - the muscular Christianity, which led to the formation of many football clubs, including Everton. A helping hand across the Park; As songs, jokes and insults pepper ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) But then, in that atmosphere of gentlemanly pursuit and muscular Christianity, you only needed to fall over a log and you'd soon have a log-falling club, an association to codify the rules of log-falling and civil servants spreading the new activity all over the Empire. You win some, you lose some by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk I reckon that a bit more muscular Christianity like that is just what the church (all of it) needs to get knees back on the hassocks. Willy Poole column by The Journal (Newcastle, England)			muscle system muscle tone muscle-bound muscle-builder muscle-wasting musclebound musclebuilder musclebuilding Muscled muscleman Muscling muscly Muscogees Muscoid Muscoidea muscology Muscosity muscovado Muscovite Muscovy Muscovy duck Muscovy glass muscular muscular atrophy Muscular Christian Muscular Christianity muscular contraction muscular dystrophy Muscular excitability Muscular sense muscular structure muscular system muscular tissue muscular tonus Muscular work Muscularity Muscularize Muscularly Musculation musculature Muscule Musculin musculocutaneous Musculophrenic musculophrenic artery musculophrenic vein Musculosity musculoskeletal musculoskeletal system Musculospiral musculospiral nerve			muscular muscular muscular muscular anesthesia muscular anesthesia muscular anesthesia muscular arteries muscular arteries muscular arteries muscular arteries muscular artery muscular asthenopia muscular asthenopia muscular asthenopia muscular asymmetry muscular asymmetry muscular asymmetry muscular atrophy muscular atrophy muscular atrophy muscular atrophy Muscular atrophy, spinal Muscular Blood Flow at Rest muscular branch of the deep brachial artery Muscular Branch of the Posterior Tibial Nerve Muscular branches Muscular branches Muscular branches Muscular Calf Vein Thrombosis muscular Christian Muscular Christianity muscular Christians Muscular coat muscular contraction muscular contraction muscular degeneration muscular degeneration muscular degeneration muscular denervation muscular denervation muscular denervation muscular denervation atrophy muscular denervation atrophy muscular denervation atrophy Muscular Disability Rating Scale Muscular diseases Muscular diseases Muscular diseases Muscular Dismorphia Muscular Disruption Units Muscular distrophy Muscular distrophy Muscular distrophy Muscular Dysmorphia Muscular Dysmorphic Disorder Muscular dystrophies Muscular dystrophies Muscular dystrophies Muscular dystrophies, limb-girdle Muscular dystrophies, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

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