Sentences with phrase «of paganism»

The great pagan trial of the twentieth century was nationalism» a movement that originally had a Christian messianic purpose» and it was the most immediate form of paganism against which Rosenzweig battled in, for example, his book Hegel and the State.

The alternatives are set before us with unusual starkness: either there will be a genuine renewal of Christian culture — there is no serious alternative — or we will be enveloped by the darkness of paganism in which the worship of the true God is abandoned and forgotten.

For our world is rapidly receding even from what Kierkegaard called Christendom and is sliding into the kind of paganism where even natural religion, religiousness A, may come to be out of reach.

I've always thought of paganism as a catch all for a tribalistic spirituality that is outside the framework of the world's major religions.

Is it some dark revival of paganism?

I've never been an atheist, but I had difficulty with much of the paganism of the New Testament.

The priests had begun to look and act rather like the very priests of the old Jewish Law or even of paganism which Jesus of Nazareth had, according to the story, come to displace for all time.

We know a great deal more about the social world of the later Roman empire; through prosopographical studies we are able to identify particular persons with much greater exactitude; and we have a keener sense of the continuing attraction of paganism, a fact that helps us understand why Augustine's great work The City of God was an «apology» in defense of Christianity and not a work of political theology.

On the other hand, perhaps the increasingly significant position of the horror movie in Hollywood's offerings is a part of the growth of paganism.

This was in the face of many related heresies all of which drew on the cosmic dualism at the heart of paganism and had a problem accepting the goodness of the body and hence that it participates in divinity or that it can inherit eternal life in the resurrection.

What I think you mean is that with the attacks by the early Christians in Rome on existing pagan religious sites, a further eradication of paganism was to make irrelevant pagan days of worship with Christian ones, thus we have Jesus» incorrect birth on December 25th, near the winter solstice.

The church became identified with society and some of its members engaged in persecution of the remaining pockets of paganism.

Why do you think Christians are especially wary of paganism?

From Karl: As a pagan, do you believe the God of the Christian Bible exists, and simply reject him in favor of paganism?

Slip to the left and you tumble into syncretism, so vulnerable to the impact of paganism in its multiplicity of forms that you compromise the uniqueness of Christ and concoct «another gospel which is not a gospel.»

But if what I am suggesting is true, that God has revealed His plan prophetically through the myths and tales of paganism, why can't we all be pagans, and how do we know that Christianity is not just another pagan myth?

If you have risen from your mat of pagan sin and death, then the core of paganism (you and me) has already been redeemed!

dose of paganism is a betrayal to all the believers who gave their lives for the purity of the faith they delivered to us as recorded in the new testament.

Kierkegaard — who conceived of paganism as an immediate relationship to God — already sensed that the Christian faith is grounded in a negation of religion.

Geifman sifts the psychological literature for explanations of the nihilistic rage of the Russian terrorists, but she ultimately sees the phenomenon in theological terms: «Regardless of the espoused creed, be it secular, as among the Russian extremists, or religious, such as radical Islam, the terrorist cult practices a modern type of paganism.»

But when the message became reproachful of paganism the Arabs rose in opposition and showed their hatred.

The deserts of NW Arabia are called the Wilderness of Sin in the O.T. Mohammed drew on the religious roots of paganism in the Arabian peninsula and also Judaism and Christianity when he founded Islam.

NathanL: I'm not attesting any veracity to the specific Eostre thing — I was never familiar with that particular brand of paganism in my younger unsaved days.

Thus what is happening, and quite rapidly, is the recrudescence of paganism in this country, all combined with valid environmental concerns and various alternative therapies and life - styles.

On a long view, this extreme concreteness may turn out to be one of the weak points of this paganism; but on a short view its plain answers to plain questions are a tower of strength.

The second point in our Christian reply to the pretensions of the paganism of today was, you will remember, that, so far as one can find anything new in the twentieth - century paganism, this new thing is something that has been borrowed by paganism from Christianity itself.

The error is so profound that the triumph of this paganism could spell nothing but disaster for mankind.

First, concerned about the influence of paganism upon the Roman Christians, Paul sees homosexual expression as a result of idolatry, but he does not claim that such practices are the cause of God's wrath.

North of Italy humanism had less of paganism than in that land.

That process was rampant back in Roman times (incorporation of paganism e.g. Christmas celebration) and continues to the present day (Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses).

If this is paganism, it's the kind of paganism open to the wonder of existence that historically led to philosophy, monotheism, and often enough, Christianity.

For Jews on the left who like to give a Jewish cast to their politics, the tradition's tiqqun «olam, «setting the world right,» means whatever is on the left's agenda, and the problem of paganism never is.

For the most solemn possible abjuration of paganism / unchastity, therefore, the Rabbis ordained Leviticus 18 to be read in the synagogue toward the close of Yom Kippur.

For the Rabbis, as for Scripture, the essence of paganism is unchastity.

More than 90 % of the people were Catholics, but it was a loose Catholicism with an underpinning of paganism.