Sentences with phrase «of paganism in»

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.

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.

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You fail to see just how ridiculous it is to hold on so tightly to the bible and the belief in god and the bible and yet your easy dismissal of ancient greek paganism, or roman paganism, or scandinavian.

Ruether concludes: «The true struggle of religion in the sixteenth century and still today is not between the true god of the Bible and «paganism» but between the warlord gods of human sacrifice in both religions and the god of life who calls for compassion and mutual respect between peoples, a god revealed in Christ but also known in Quetzalcoatl.»

In Europe, Charlemagne, who in 800 A.D. became the first emperor in western Europe, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier and who was a pivotal figure in the Christianization of Europe, issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which prescribed death for Saxons who refused to convert from their native Germanic paganism to ChristianitIn Europe, Charlemagne, who in 800 A.D. became the first emperor in western Europe, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier and who was a pivotal figure in the Christianization of Europe, issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which prescribed death for Saxons who refused to convert from their native Germanic paganism to Christianitin 800 A.D. became the first emperor in western Europe, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier and who was a pivotal figure in the Christianization of Europe, issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which prescribed death for Saxons who refused to convert from their native Germanic paganism to Christianitin western Europe, after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier and who was a pivotal figure in the Christianization of Europe, issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which prescribed death for Saxons who refused to convert from their native Germanic paganism to Christianitin the Christianization of Europe, issued the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, which prescribed death for Saxons who refused to convert from their native Germanic paganism to Christianity.

This is a distinction of inestimable importance, for the residual paganism of Christianized nations has invariably expressed itself in the idolatrous desire to be a chosen people» to be a nation like Israel.

But to say that it is a part of resurgent paganism does not prove that it is evil in and of itself: In terms of their origin, the play is pagan, the tragedy is pagan, the epic poem is pagain and of itself: In terms of their origin, the play is pagan, the tragedy is pagan, the epic poem is pagaIn terms of their origin, the play is pagan, the tragedy is pagan, the epic poem is pagan.

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.

He reported sarcastically that «there» were some members [at the Constitutional Convention] so unfashionable as to think that a belief of the existence of a Deity, and of a state of future rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers, and that in a Christian country it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism» (IV: 642) This chapter also includes excerpts from state constitutions that imposed religious tests on government officers (Delaware, for example.

That is the same thing, Catholic and atheists are in the same way, following the anti-Chist, living with tha same world, the kindom of Jesus is no of this world, his kindom is based in his apostoles and making diferents ways whitout paganism, idolatry and not asocieted with the famous, the walthty, the politicis, the mobsters, diferent?

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.

It was in Western Europe, where it faced a much weaker paganism, was associated with the prestige of Roman civilization, and, while often favored by civil rulers, did not have to confront a continuously powerful state which controlled all phases of life, that the influence of Jesus was most marked.

Alike in the sacred meals of Judaism and of paganism, another idea had from primitive times been dominant — by eating the sacrificed and dedicated food, union was consummated between the worshiper and his deity.

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

If this is true, paganism will cease to exist in this sense, because the West has begun to enter the history of our whole planet.

Each of these examples reveals some of the inherent dangers that Eliot tended to minimize in light of what he saw as the more immediate threat of paganism.

If we are too easily accepting of blending the Christ way with other ways, the other way tends to start to dominate (e.g. Catholic church in parts of Latin culture) and we can end up with a sort of Christian flavoured paganism.

One the one hand, paganism and mystical religions seek salvation in a vertical movement of integration with the absolute, either by an ascent into the One or by a descent into the soul, On the other hand, Judaism looks for salvation in the horizontal movement of history, in the advent of a new era.

No, my research has turned up the fact that Hitler was in fact an adherent to a strange mixture of old Teutonic paganism mixed with Hinduistic belief in reincarnation, New Age, belief, relicism, etc..

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.

Yes, it is true, most of what we call «Christianity» today has it's roots in paganism.

I think the case could easily be made that Murrow and Eldredge are actually calling us back to a form of Biblical manhood because the most common conception of «manhood» in Christianity today is one that borrowed themes and ideas from various forms of «paganism.»

The fact that a lot of Christian praxis today owes something to paganism doesn't excuse a specific case of it; it just means that we're in a target - rich environment.

Hitler was not a Christian, he was a person who dabbled in various forms of paganism.

We are to oppose the new paganism in the name of humanity, liberty, brotherhood, the sacredness of the individual soul.

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.

It is true that a distinction is made also in paganism, as well as by the natural man, between being in despair and not being in despair; that is to say, people talk of despair as if only certain particular individuals were in despair.

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Mithra, the sun god was celebrated in the solar paganism and their day of rest and worship was on the day of the sun.

This form of despair (i.e. unconsciousness of it) is the commonest in the world — yes, in what people call the world, or, to define it more exactly, what Christianity calls «the world,» i.e. paganism, and the natural man in Christendom.

The selfishness of paganism, therefore, in spite of all that can be said about it, is not nearly so «qualified» as that of Christendom, in so far as here also there is selfishness; for the pagan did not possess his self directly in the face of God.

Ker uses the example of Callista, in Newman's novel of that name, in her journey from paganism to Christianity.

Christianity is hinduism, paganism, denial of truth absolute, installed with fundamentals of hinduism, denial of truth absolute, 360 * in to two parts, hindu filthy Pharaoh 50 % and his hindu filthy sanatan, goon priest other half, known as hindu pagan trinity,, also known as King as god and his hindu, filthy sanatan, goon prophet, fortune teller as god.

This view makes Jenson less than friendly to certain trajectories in contemporary theology, such as the projecting of goddess images or the revival of paganism.

Nash and Brown basically summarize the findings of these scholars in addition to supplementing their findings with more recent evidence that suggests 1st century Christianity did not steal its ideas from paganism.

Never since the days when rude minds, but minds aflame with the certainty of truth, laid seige to the proud and empty paganism of ancient Rome has there lain before mankind both the need, and the attainable prospect of one world civilisation, confirmed through one Faith from God, and under God, pacified in the unity of one brotherhood, one aim in human affairs, one common charity of end and purpose.

There is no relation between the pure unitarian system, the most perfect and refined ethics of the Holy Book of Islam, and the ignorance, paganism, superstitious idolatry, arrogant materialism, infanticide, prostitution, incest, dowry extortion, oppression of orphans, disregard for the poor, and scorn of the weak which were characteristics of Mecca in those times.

It has sometimes been argued that in the City of God, his apology contra paganos, Augustine made place for a neutral secular space that could accommodate paganism and promote a «coherence of wills» about things relevant to this mortal life.

Many scholars, ancient and modern, have pointed out that such contact with Christianity is unlikely but that, even if it did happen, the Christianity practiced in that part of the world was so debased that it was indistinguishable from paganism.

This form of evangelism in the early church must be viewed in its cultural context, the paganism of the Roman Empire.

the early church was (for the most part) more flawed and now guilty of crimes against God in that there have been abominations such as the catholic church that bring paganism into people as something of God

This mere thought of taking time upon one's conscience of giving it time to explore with its sleepless vigilance every secret thought, with such effect that, if every instant one does not make the movement by virtue of the highest and holiest there is in a man, one is able with dread and horror to discover (People do not believe this in our serious age, and yet it is remarkable that even in paganism, less easy - going and more given to reflection, the two outstanding representatives of the Greek as a conception of existence intimated each in his way that by delving deep into oneself one would first of all discover the disposition to evil.

In Adamson's account, Augustine's legacy looms largest in this era because he had the courage to announce a redefinition of philosophy that required «self - knowledge as involving not just duality but trinity,» and a resistance to any remnant of paganism — that is, anything that does not lead us «away from sin and self - interest to a truly «philosophical» way of life.&raquIn Adamson's account, Augustine's legacy looms largest in this era because he had the courage to announce a redefinition of philosophy that required «self - knowledge as involving not just duality but trinity,» and a resistance to any remnant of paganism — that is, anything that does not lead us «away from sin and self - interest to a truly «philosophical» way of life.&raquin this era because he had the courage to announce a redefinition of philosophy that required «self - knowledge as involving not just duality but trinity,» and a resistance to any remnant of paganism — that is, anything that does not lead us «away from sin and self - interest to a truly «philosophical» way of life.»

At the canonization of Edith Stein, the Pope spoke movingly about Christians and Jews standing in solidarity against the paganism of that time and all times.

But it also includes points that Muslims should consider: that the Qur» an may not deny the Crucifixion, as is often thought, or that its harsh condemnations of the concept of the «Son of God» may in fact be targeting Arab paganism and its carnal deities more than Christianity.

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

The Catholic hierarchy concludes that the godly righteous in the name of the Cross can triumph over the new paganism of godless sinners expressed in secularism in politics and avarice in business and the professions.

To speak of «God» properly — in a way, that is, consonant with the teachings of orthodox Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Bahá» í, much of antique paganism, and so forth — is to speak of the one infinite ground of all that is: eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, uncreated, uncaused, perfectly transcendent of all things and for that very reason absolutely immanent to all things.

That, he says, is a big reason why paganism is seeing a revival: «If nothing else, because of the impending destruction of our environment, and our focus on finding a way to live in balance with nature.»