paganism in English

noun

['pa·gan·ism || 'peɪgənɪzm]

beliefs and practices of pagans, heathenism

Use "paganism" in a sentence

1. Christmas helped to infuse paganism into nominally Christian churches

2. Indeed the use of it was a mark of paganism . . .

3. While professing to champion Christianity, Constantine kept one foot in paganism.

4. From the Cambridge English Corpus First, "paganism," "Archaism" and …

5. I had no idea Inverness was such a hotbed of contemporary paganism.

6. Zion’s Watch Tower of December 1881 stated: “Millions were brought into the church from Paganism.

7. After Constantine, Emperor Julian (361-363 C.E.) made an attempt to oppose Christianity and restore paganism.

8. Chastity, then, was the manner in which Judaism steered a course between the twin excesses of paganism and puritanism

9. The Antimartyr is not necessarily someone who hates the Church, or who seeks to spread paganism across the land

10. The Antimartyr is not necessarily someone who hates the Church, or who seeks to spread paganism across the land

11. But he failed, and some 20 years later, Emperor Theodosius I banned paganism and imposed Trinitarian “Christianity” as the State religion of the Roman Empire.

12. The idea was only adopted by the Church three hundred years after the death of our Lord.”—The Paganism in Our Christianity.

13. The whole season was one of rejoicing and goodwill, and all kinds of amusements were indulged in by the people.” —Paganism in Christian Festivals, by J.

14. Baptized Paganism So new to the world, so unaware of the danger, the tiny newborn is secure, nestled in the warm cradle of his mother's arms

15. Aspergilla are also used in modern paganism, particularly to cleanse a ritual area in Wicca, as part of a spell, or during a Wheel of the Year festival in contemporary Witchcraft

16. The word will be taken in this quantitative sense in the article R ELIGIONS in comparing the extent of Christendom with that of Paganism or of Islam.

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18. In the early church, the Apologists, such as Justin Martyr and Tertullian, defended the moral superiority of Christianity over paganism and pointed out Christianity’s fulfillment of Hebrew Bible prophecies

19. ‘Christendom lost her high moral level’ and accepted many practices and philosophies from paganism, such as “the cult of Mary” and the adoration of the “saints,” as well as the concept of the Trinity.

20. The memes of Bloomsbury, Neo Paganism, Beatnikery and bohemianism have shaped my life, the tea leaves of which can maybe demonstrate my theme: that the ideas that are memes, have us, not us ideas

21. After a discussion with the Adventist pastor on Christmas, in which the pastor admitted that they still had some paganism left in their church, there remained no doubt as to who had the truth.

22. Bezoar Mustika Pearls: Animal and Plant pearls, Bezoar Stones and Mustikas, worn as amulets and charms--free talismans! & fossils, relics, and artifacts applied in magick (healing, divination, psychic development, animal totemism, etc)in paganism, magick and shamanism

23. First Malvenda, who writes expressly on the subject, states as the opinion of Ribera, Gaspar Melus, Biegas, Suarrez, Bellarmine and Bosius that Rome shall Apostatise from the faith, drive away the Vicar of Christ and return to its ancient paganism

24. ‘The frequent theft of Chrism from churches for magical purposes is a case in point; surely this was not a clear indicator of persistent paganism.’ ‘In it he expresses his anguish at the killings: ‘The newly baptized in their white garments had just been anointed with Chrism.’’

25. Technically, an Apostate is defined as one who “completely and voluntarily abandons the Christian religion, whether by embracing another religion such as Paganism, Judaism, Mohammedanism, etc., or merely making a profession of Naturalism, Rationalism, etc.” Properly speaking, Joe Biden is not an Apostate per se, but an Apostate in his acts.

26. ‘The frequent theft of Chrism from churches for magical purposes is a case in point; surely this was not a clear indicator of persistent paganism.’ ‘In it he expresses his anguish at the killings: ‘The newly baptized in their white garments had just been anointed with Chrism.’’

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28. Chivalric or Courtly Love (known in medieval France as "fine love" or fin amour) originated with the so-called troubadours of the late eleventh century.Promoting a suave new form of paganism which they called Gai Saber (literally, "the happy wisdom" or "gay science"), these colorful figures from the Provence region of southern France effectively challenged and sought to

29. First, Malvenda, who writes expressly on the subject, states as the opinion of Ribera, Gaspar Melus, Viegas, Suarez, Bellarmine, and Bosius, that Rome shall Apostatise from the faith, drive away the Vicar of Christ, and return to its ancient paganism.* Malvenda’s words are: “But Rome itself in the last times of the world will return to its

30. A classic study of the legendary Greek physician and—in the last stages of paganism—the Greek deity who posed the greatest challenge to Christ.Throughout nearly all of antiquity, the legendary Greek physician, Asclepius, son of Apollo and Coronis, was not only the primary representative of divine healing, but also so influential in the religious life of later centuries that,