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...rback. Volume I (ISBN 0521316820) is a history from early Rome down to the Christian emperors (the last chapter). Volume 2 (ISBN 0521456460) is a sourcebook wit | title=Religion and law in classical and Christian Rome

...at were seen, for one reason or another, as agreeing with the views of the Christian copyists who preserved select writings over others. But none the less it ma

... be compared to the practices of other religions. The main celebration of Christian churches is that of a human sacrifice and a cannibalistic meal, where bread

...igious spirit, that some historians have attributed to an intuition of the christian religion. ...man times gains more spiritualistic meditations, closer than before to the christian religion, but is not able to give to these thoughts an ontological foundati

... fertile ground for demonstrating that a reconstructionist approach to pre-Christian religion is, in fact, a proper path to a more fulfilling spirituality.

...ve regarded it as less of a threat, and there would have been rather fewer Christian martyrs. The chance for such an accommodation died with Arianism. The syncr

.... After a few years, he with great joy renounced both the monastery andthe Christian faith, and completed philological and philosophical studies in the Universi

...and because the mystery religions of Late Antiquity were persecuted by the Christian Roman Empire from the 4th century, the details of these religious practices ..., components of mystery religions began to be incorporated into mainstream Christian thinking, such as is reflected by the disciplina arcani.

...e powers of darkness, but he reappears each morning as the eternal victor. Christian scholars have frequently seen Sol Invictus and [[Mithras]] as prefiguration ... the winter solstice.<ref>A connection between the unconquered sun and the Christian Son of God lead to the modern celebration of Christ’s birth on the same d

...rmation of Sacred Law in Rome' essay in "Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome."

<onlyinclude>"In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the

...ed a more distinguished rank as the companions of their sovereign; and the Christian emperors condescended to accept the robe and ensigns which were appropriate ...e rest of the nobility: the Bassi, the Paullini, the Gracchi, embraced the Christian religion; and "the luminaries of the world, the venerable assembly of Catos

... Jew and his history is that it exerted a profound influence on subsequent Christian and even Muslim legislation. The second-class status of citizenship of the ...low at the economic life of the Jew. It put him at a disadvantage with his Christian competitor to whom this economic privilege was assured.

..., an Asatruar; [[Marcus Minucius Audens (Nova Roma)|M Minucius Audens]], a Christian; and [[Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (Nova Roma)|L Cornelius Sulla]], a Jew,

... and making God sick." Horrified by that answer, Nix proceeded to read the Christian Bible from beginning to end in order to see if words were being contorted w

personal religious views (you can do a Roman religious, a Christian or an irreligious version If you are addressing the Christian God a sacrifice is not necessary, but the lighting of a candle will serve a

...y “golden tablets” or codified texts similar to the Bible of the Judeo-Christian faiths, or to the Quran of Islam. However, religious change had been possi

| author=James L. Christian

'''I pray as a Christian:'''

...tenberg.org/files/22153/22153-h/22153-h.htm Lanciani, R. (1893). Pagan and Christian Rome]</ref>A piece of entablature and a column capital from the cella survi