Search Details

Word: paganisms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...These emotions pour through the film in a torrent and fill the performers, most of them amateurs, with the fervor of the creator's faith. It is a faith in nature, a worship of the sun and everything it shines on. Director Camus has realized in a passionately pagan work of art the Christian intuition of William Blake: "Everything that lives is holy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Wave | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

...origins. The floor of a neighboring room glistened with elegant marble work. A fine statue of Bacchus stood in the corner of one room along with objects of a Christian nature and on the floor incised with Christian symbols. The mystery of the coexistence of the statute of the pagan god and the Christian implements, among them a unique liturgical embers shovel decorated with a cross and two dolphins, has not yet been solved by the scholars...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Harvard Professor Directs Excavations To Unearth Important Relics at Sardis | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...tradition the Bembas had been required to offer their chiefs small amounts of grain to be made into a kind of beer for use in tribal ceremonies honoring the spirits of the chief's ancestors. This custom was an essential part of the tribe's pagan religion, and when the two Catholic Bembas urged defiance of it-following their consciences and the guidance of their white priests-their purpose was to combat paganism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Case of the Bembas' Beer | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Nine o'clock is a hardy hour and some of the subject matter is appropriately idealistic. The early-to-bed type, in fact, has a choice of pursuing either the pagan or the Christian mode in his search for the Good Life. Professor Demos in Philosophy 102 (Sever 11) unravels the philosophies of Plato, while Professor Buttrick explores the Old Testament in Humanities 124 (Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Classgoer | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

Once a Roman shop in the ancient city of Sardis, the baptistry is dominated by two crosses which cover earlier pagan inscriptions on a marble basin. The buildings also contained a marble baptismal font, coins from the Byzantine and Roman Empires, and a torso of Athena...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Archeologists Uncover Baptistry, Furnishings In Sardis Excavation | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

Previous | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | Next