Sentences with phrase «most syncretistic»

Some of these details are innocent and rooted in tradition; others are significant aberrations to the Christmas story, making December 25 one of the most syncretistic events on the Christian calendar.

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What we have in Paul is a further, and very distinctive, development of the primitive Christology, partly on the basis of pre-Christian Jewish and even syncretistic — that is, partly pagan — speculations (Paul's contact with the pagan world of his time is recognized in most modern studies; indeed, it is sometimes exaggerated.
Christianity, as it is most often practiced today in the west, is a highly syncretistic brand of Christianity.
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