Judeo-Christian
adjective
Ju·deo-Chris·tian
jü-ˌdā-ō-ˈkris-chən 
-ˈkrish-,
also ˌjü-dē-ō-,
or jü-ˌdē-ō-
: having historical roots in both Judaism and Christianity
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Michael Ledeen was a brilliant historian who dedicated his life to freedom, the lamp of liberty lit by the Judeo-Christian tradition of America and that West.
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Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 20 May 2025
Protecting Christians also aligns with America's Judeo-Christian heritage, extending compassion to others and ensuring the nation's moral compass guides its global role.
—Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
And so Mary’s virgin status may have been added in Matthew, and later Luke, not to emphasize her purity, but to strengthen the authority of the Christ figure within the Judeo-Christian schema.
—Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 6 May 2025
The Judeo-Christian tradition, which began with God's world-transforming revelation to the incipient Israelite nation at Mount Sinai, birthed Western civilization and has nourished it over the course of thousands of years.
—Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
No decent person, let alone a political movement downstream of the biblical, Judeo-Christian tradition, as American conservatism necessarily is, should lift a finger to welcome such a wretched reprobate to our shores or shield him from justice.
—Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
Although guided by Judeo-Christian principles, these men composed a fallible document, inspired not by the divine but by human beings.
—Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
Thanksgiving is, as the name implies, about gratitude—a defining ideal of both the specific American tradition and the broader Judeo-Christian civilizational inheritance from which our nation cannot be separated.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
This is a nation that has a Judeo-Christian foundation.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
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Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 20 May 2025
Protecting Christians also aligns with America's Judeo-Christian heritage, extending compassion to others and ensuring the nation's moral compass guides its global role.
—Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
And so Mary’s virgin status may have been added in Matthew, and later Luke, not to emphasize her purity, but to strengthen the authority of the Christ figure within the Judeo-Christian schema.
—Lamorna Ash, The Dial, 6 May 2025
The Judeo-Christian tradition, which began with God's world-transforming revelation to the incipient Israelite nation at Mount Sinai, birthed Western civilization and has nourished it over the course of thousands of years.
—Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
No decent person, let alone a political movement downstream of the biblical, Judeo-Christian tradition, as American conservatism necessarily is, should lift a finger to welcome such a wretched reprobate to our shores or shield him from justice.
—Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
Although guided by Judeo-Christian principles, these men composed a fallible document, inspired not by the divine but by human beings.
—Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
Thanksgiving is, as the name implies, about gratitude—a defining ideal of both the specific American tradition and the broader Judeo-Christian civilizational inheritance from which our nation cannot be separated.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
This is a nation that has a Judeo-Christian foundation.
—Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
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“Judeo-Christian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Judeo-Christian. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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