Sentences with phrase «pagan temples»

Thousands of pagan temples were now converted into Christian buildings.

Members strengthened their personal bonds by dining together, but these meals took place in pagan temples.

This structure dates back to the 11th century, and it was built over an ancient Greek pagan temple dedicated to either the goddess Demeter or Athena.

Now that the visible connection of practices at pagan temples is not before us, we can ask the question more objectively.

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.

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

These passages in Leviticus can be translated to not mean homosexual sex generally, but only limiting homosexual sex in Pagan temples.

«They've only been ancestral lands for at best 100 years before the pagans turn up, and it is most likely that any pagan temples were on old church sites.

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.

The Empire turned over all the pagan temples and most of the pagan priests to the Church, and paid for them all out of the Empires vast tax and war revenue.

Many in the church argued further that the conversion of the pagan temples brought the world one step closer the ultimate goal of spreading Christianity over the entire earth.

In order that the church could be built, a pagan temple dedicated to Aphrodite was first destroyed.

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.

These passages in Leviticus can be translated to not mean hom ose xual se x generally, but only limiting hom ose xual se x in Pagan temples.

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

However, our Church has identified itself long ago with the «temple,» has dissolved itself in the temple, and (this means) has returned to the pagan temple as its religious sanction.

The pagan temple, for instance, was one of his favored images (although he also sometimes used the image of a lonely Christian church).

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

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

Palestine became part of the Byzantine Empire around 400 CE, at which time its Christian rulers destroyed all pagan temples in the territory; Gaza subsequently became an important starting point for Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

The Pantheon is Italy's best - preserved ancient building, It started out as a pagan temple and then became a church.