Sentence:  Again , Henley 's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius , whose gentle acquiescence is almost <WSD>Christian</WSD> , comparable to the patience expressed in Milton 's sonnet on his own blindness . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ