Sentences with phrase «postwar paganism»

In the third place, the core of the postwar paganism, under its Christian varnish, is something as old as the hills — an ancient error which Christianity has fought and conquered not once but many times already.

And if Christianity rises to the present challenge from the postwar paganism, the appearance on earth of another batch of saints will no doubt be one of the practical concrete ways in which the church will be given the strength to deal with its present adversary.

In its own estimation, this postwar paganism is indeed nothing less than Christianity's supplanter and successor.

Our postwar paganism is, in fact, in one form or another, simply the idolatry which used to hold the field in the ages before Christianity appeared in the world, and which Christianity has always been struggling to weed out of people's hearts.

Post-Christian paganism has succeeded in capturing, for its own trivial and narrow ends, some of that wholehearted Christian devotion which ought to be given to God alone.The idolatrous worship of organized human power is the fatal error which is common to all the varieties of our postwar paganism.

The postwar paganism also gives its converts directions for their conduct in practical life; and these directions are of the kind which human nature craves for: they are simple, clear, concrete and confident.

True, this anti-Christian faith is coming into action under different names in different parts of the world; but the more these alternative versions of the postwar paganism insist upon their points of difference — the more they abuse and attack one another — the more clearly they betray their kinship with one another to the eyes of the Christian observer.