Sentences with phrase «observed by pagans»
Well, we do know that the 25th of Dec was a festival observed by pagans.
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Pagan holidays continued to be practiced and observed, but they were adopted and adapted by Christianity, and given new meaning and interpretations that fit better with Christian theology and ideas.
As Walter L. Nathan has observed, the art rejected by these three church fathers was not the «entirely new pictorial language» of a mature Christian art but the Christian art of their time, which had «borrowed freely» from the late classical pagan tradition.