Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Apostasy of Julian and the Pagan reaction of his time...
...preaching of modern times. It used to be thought that the Christian church was an entirely new phenomenon; but this is far from true. It is only unique in its idea of Christ. In fact, irreverant though it may seem to admit it, Christianity is indebted to pagan ideas for a number of our religious ceremonies...
...smile at the old tales and legends it is to our advantage to know something of them. These old works have a poetical as well as a political value for us. At first there were the two distinct literatures of the Northern and Southern Celts, first of a Pagan type, and later influenced by Christianity...
...priests and prophets. The priests said that the office of religion was to placate God, while the prophets declared that its office was to please God, to do what was pure and good and righteous. In fact the history of the church, is the conflict between these two, the pagan, and the christian, wrestling through the centuries. But through the contention, certain things became established. First, people believed in the unity of the universe, it was no longer a mass of segregated and separate phenomena. Secondly, they believed in a single God, not a definite one, but a God, illimitable...
...Claudius Claudianus and the Pagan Literary Reaction of the 5th century...