Sentences with phrase «ancient pagan world»

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Despite all that we owe to the Greeks and Romans, the ancient, pagan world seems not to have cared much about the individual as such.

It is the pagan glories of the Ancient world that are extolled.

Of the old church an ancient historian said, «The church in the first three centuries won the empire because it outlived, it outthought, and it outdied the pagan world» — including intellectual and artistic achievement.

Unlike the pagan religions of classical antiquity, e.g. ancient Egypt and the Far East, Christianity does not seek to explain the physical phenomena of the material world as a dramatic struggle between warring gods and goddesses, i.e. μυθος (myth).

European man before Galileo — whether ancient pagan or more recent Christian — thought of the world as controlled by plan and purpose.

Once Christianity became permanently divorced from its Semitic origins in Judaism, and was proclaiming its Gospel in a pagan context where the ancient mythology was still very much of a reality, it was natural that the idea of the unseen divine world above should steadily become more dominant in Christian thought.