Where does “基督教” come from?

基督教 (Vietnamese) comes from Chinese 基督教, from Japanese 基督教, from Japanese 教, from Middle Chinese 教.

Ancestry of “基督教”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese基督教Christianity
2Japanese基督教—
3Japanese教-ism
4Middle Chinese教—
Every word from Middle Chinese 教 →Every word from Japanese 教 →Every word from Japanese 基督教 →