I do not know if this is the right place to post this, so if not, I request that the mods move it to the correct category.
For starters, I would like to open with my position that I generally do not like the idea of categorizing a martial art by religion. It seems to be only "Christian martial artists" who do this. I am not going to get into whether or not that is good or bad; not the topic of this thread.
But as the OP, I do not generally categorize an art in that fashion.
Now that that is out of the way, here is the topic:
I see a lot of "Christian" martial arts that are simply karate or some other Asian martial art that is traditionally associated with with an Asian religion or philosophy (such as Shinto, Buddhism, or Zen) with that religion or philosophy being replaced by Christianity and then marketed as "Christian martial arts."
But are there any martial arts that have either an inherently Christian background for cultural reasons, or are there any martial arts that began with Chrisitan spirituality as a core part of the art from the outset (as opposed to a Christianized version of an existing art)? Where Christian spirituality is traditionally and/or historically associated with the art?
Personally, I do not know of any off the top of my head.
Daniel
For starters, I would like to open with my position that I generally do not like the idea of categorizing a martial art by religion. It seems to be only "Christian martial artists" who do this. I am not going to get into whether or not that is good or bad; not the topic of this thread.
But as the OP, I do not generally categorize an art in that fashion.
Now that that is out of the way, here is the topic:
I see a lot of "Christian" martial arts that are simply karate or some other Asian martial art that is traditionally associated with with an Asian religion or philosophy (such as Shinto, Buddhism, or Zen) with that religion or philosophy being replaced by Christianity and then marketed as "Christian martial arts."
But are there any martial arts that have either an inherently Christian background for cultural reasons, or are there any martial arts that began with Chrisitan spirituality as a core part of the art from the outset (as opposed to a Christianized version of an existing art)? Where Christian spirituality is traditionally and/or historically associated with the art?
Personally, I do not know of any off the top of my head.
Daniel