Sentences with phrase «in ancient pagan»

Its roots are found in ancient pagan belief.

However, to denounce a Christian tradition or practice as rooted in paganism simply because a similar practice appears in ancient pagan rituals is tantamount to throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Not exact matches

Writing in the New Statesman Tom Holland said that the more he studied ancient history, the more he saw that pagan gods and followers did not value human life equally, routinely upholding the strong and rich above the weak and poor.

ALL of the stories in the bible are versions of the same stories dating far earlier to pagan, ancient greek, and egyption stories.

no records) Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise.

To Lamar H and everybody else out there Do you happen to open the bible and compare the christian rituals against ancient pagan rituals (surprise surprise)?!? To everybody else, count to ten and look into your lives, maybe you'll find out that you do nt live your faith as you preach in these forums.

Father Tom Brodie, a Dominican priest, in his soon forthcoming book «In Search of the Historical Jesus» states that Jesus was a copy from the ancient pagan religionin his soon forthcoming book «In Search of the Historical Jesus» states that Jesus was a copy from the ancient pagan religionIn Search of the Historical Jesus» states that Jesus was a copy from the ancient pagan religions.

It was a pseudonym for Osiris - Dionysus, a pagan god in ancient Mediterranean culture.

From Kat W.: I've known of pagans who run the gamut from secular agnostics who treat their spirituality as completely metaphorical, to those who are pagan re-constructionists attempting to resurrect ancient tribal religions and espouse a literal belief in their chosen pantheon of gods.

In fact Christianity is just Pagans customs Mix in with ancient Hebrew LawIn fact Christianity is just Pagans customs Mix in with ancient Hebrew Lawin with ancient Hebrew Laws.

The righteousness and holiness of God imposed upon the Israelite an exacting standard of action and thought and, in turn, revealed the depravity of pagan religion, however pompous or ancient.

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.

There are a variety of ways in which this is so, but, at the same time, it's clear that certain aspects of pagan familial virtue are not exactly incompatible with the Biblical sacred order that can check or overcome their excesses and pathologies — just as the Biblical order imposes powerful interdicts, not to be confused with taboos, against the kind of violent desires that, to the morbid fascination of the ancient Greeks, deconstructed and destroyed the identities of family - bound individuals.

The figure, Osiris, was the supreme god in ancient Egypt, only one of many pagan gods worshipped thousands of years before the birth of Jesus.

She frequently hints that Catholicism is still rooted in the ancient, pagan philosophies the medieval doctors drew on.

In the words of Oxford scholar Larry Siedentop — and in contrast to ancient pagan society — «Christianity changed the ground of human identity» by developing and uniquely stressing the idea of the individual person with an eternal destinIn the words of Oxford scholar Larry Siedentop — and in contrast to ancient pagan society — «Christianity changed the ground of human identity» by developing and uniquely stressing the idea of the individual person with an eternal destinin contrast to ancient pagan society — «Christianity changed the ground of human identity» by developing and uniquely stressing the idea of the individual person with an eternal destiny.

Adamson knows this, but admirably proceeds to outline three areas of philosophy that are often overlooked in the hustle of contemporary academic discourse: «Hellenistic philosophy» (the inheritance of Plato and Aristotle), «late antique philosophy among pagans, and ancient Christian philosophy.»

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.

34 The apologetic motif is stressed by B. LeRoy Burkhart in «The Rise of the Christian Priesthood,» Journal of Religion, XXII (1942), 187:»... under the necessity of meeting pagan criticism Christian leaders brought back into use the ancient terminology of religion.»

What might have eventually passed into oblivion (as all other ancient pagan holidays), is now a recurring celebration of eroticism, pre-marital sex, and fertility — all in the name of «Saint Valentine.»

In the Season 2 premiere, Pope Alexander VI takes a new lover and throws a grand, pagan fete for the citizens of Rome when a cache of ancient artifacts is discovered; the rivalry between brothers Cesare and Juan spills into the streets; Lucrezia tends to her newborn child; now a pastoral priest once again, Della Rovere narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.

I am Vaclav the Magnificent, with birthday on the sixth of May, the famous day for the generations to celebrate and rejoice, a day in the future years eclipsing Christmas and Hanukkah and Ramadan and all pagan festivals, born in a land far, far, far, far, far, far, far distance from here, a land of ancient and magnificent secrets, a land of enchanted knowledge passed down from the ages and from the ancients, a land of illusion (Russia!)

«Bush league» were the words we used to describe the logo designs of other agencies - unless it was a really well - designed logo, in which case we bowed down before it, much like the ancient Mayans did their pagan gods.

The religious festival of All Hallows» Eve seems to have ancient Pagan roots, but in the church it marks the start of three days of remembrance for the hallows (saints) and family members who have died.

From Greece the centre of that culture was to move gradually to Italy and over the centuries cultures built themselves on top of others with dizzying density; Christian Rome on top of Pagan Rome, the Goths, Vandals, Lombards, successively on top of Ancient Rome, reducing it through wars often to village status, the Normans from the north of Europe meeting up with Byzantine and even Islamic cultures, traces of which can indeed be found in Benevento in the twelfth century in cloisters of the Church of Santa Sofia; the battles of Guelphs and Ghibelines, the Renaissance in all its glory and seemingly endless histories down to the disastrous vainglories of Fascism».9