Sentences with phrase «of pagan temples»

«Yes,» came back the reply, «but he did not give the names of his converts to the priests of the pagan temples!»

Thousands of pagan temples were transformed into places of Christian worship.

Constantine's son Constantius II, who reigned from 337 till 361, ordered the closing of all pagan temples and forbade Pagan sacrifices under pain of death.

Constantine I, who was the first Christian Roman emperor and who also had his wife, the Empress Fausta, and his eldest son, Crispus, put to death, seized property from pagan temples and by the end of his reign was ordering the pillaging and the tearing down of pagan temples.

Hardly anything survives from Constantine's city, but the great church of Hagia Sophia, «Divine Wisdom», now a mosque, which was rebuilt on more than one occasion, is on the site of the church built by Constantine, which was itself built on the foundations of a pagan temple.

Ephesus, a leading commercial and cultural city of the Roman empire, was the site of the pagan temple of Artemis, or Diana.

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The vandalization of many ancient Pagan temples, tombs and monuments continued under his reign.

Are we saying that the Christianity we grew up with is actually a syncretistic religion, containing elements of not only ancient Christianity, but also of Roman pagan worship, complete with temples (buildings) and paid employees (priests and others)?

The «desolating sacrilege,» of verse 14, refers to Daniel 9:27 and 11:31 where the pagan pollution of the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes is described.

It is likely that a second reason for Paul's using homosexuality as his illustration of the immediate consequence of idolatry is that its public manifestations were typically associated with pagan temples.

Legend states that the pagans (who continued in number and strength long after Constantine embraced Christianity) had deliberately built their temple over Christ's tomb to cover any trace of the false god.

The heart of his instruction was that Augustine should not destroy the pagan temples, rituals, and sacred stories but should try to incorporate indigenous beliefs and practices into orthodox Christianity.

We confiscated pagan temples and converted them into centers for the worship of Jesus.

In three eighteen ad Constantine the emperor of Rome chose a pagan temple,» Building» and called it a church.

There, at Uppsala, on the site of the chief pagan temple of the country, a cathedral was erected.

This sounds like some sort of ancient pagan ritual where the worshippers splashed blood on themselves as they went into the temple to worship their pagan god.

For example, for a pagan of the empire, it was important, whatever the gods and mixtures of religion you adopted, to be respectful and tolerant of the gods of others — for instance, when you were traveling through the empire, to pay a respectuous visit to all the temples on your ways, and even to offer a sacrifice if you were well - off.