Word: paganization
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...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...
...Abbott took for his text the 13th and 16th verses of the 11th chapter of Hebrews. He spoke of the necessity of progress. Pagan countries are stereotyped, they are printed from stereotype plates cast two thousand years ago. The religion of the church, of the priests, of the ministers has not always been forward, but the religion of the Bible is forward. We should not look backward for our ideals but forward. The world is better today than it was yesterday, it will be better tomorrow that it was today if we do our duty. Don't be discouraged...
...livelihood. He has at his command two important factors; 1st, his intense dramatic religion, 2d, his military organization. Allowing for the incalculable power of the first, supplemented by the effectiveness of the second, his work remains of gigantic proportions. He would remove from the city this wretched class, Christian, Pagan, Jew, young, old, without discrimination; he would put them on farms and subject them to the severest discipline, and would pay them remuneratively for their work, that is, a great deal more than the same work is bringing today...
...which brings the complete victory over death which Plato and Socrates in their wildest dreams had never conceived of. Then He sends His Apostles to carry His gift to the world. They go first to Asia, then to Egypt, then to Greece, and lastly to Rome. The colossus that Pagan teachers had labored so long to build was thrown down at the first attack of barbarian invasion. The debris was scattered over the world and on it the seeds of the new religion were strewn, took root and flourished. In fine, all history is a puzzle of which Christ...