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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

... of Gandersheim claims to have written her plays so that learned men had a Christian alternative to reading the pagan plays of Terence, while the reformer Marti

Massa, F (2020). The Shadow of Bacchus: Liber and Dionysus in Christian Latin Literature (2nd-4th centuries, Dionysus and Rome: Religion and Litera

:I am a very tolerant, yet devout, Christian. I have also been practicing the Via, if not the Religio, Romana for many y ...ering sacrifices to the gods on the holy days of Rome -- this annoys me. A Christian, Jew, and Asatrur should not have to make offering to any gods but their ow

2008 as the Christian cives among us also say.

...es Deorum of all kinds, and for gentiles Romani, along with our Jewish and Christian and Muslim sorores et fratres Novi Romani.

...of the empire. Trier became the imperial capital of Constantine, the First Christian Imperator and he built a church during the fourth century. It is the oldest

...h was one in 10. Conversely, criminals who were to be publicly executed or Christian martyrs who refused to renounce their faith and worship the gods had no hop

...ording to Robert Turcan, the Latin ‘’aeternum’’ does not imply the Christian concept of transcendental life, but rather the idea of lasting durability.

...tioned in Roman calendar, either instead or in complement with the classic christian calendar. This possibility has not been used by our competitors. ...d thus Rome's one, which was not that preeminent in the 3rd century before christian era, would trade with silver. These indemnities were thus counted and payed

...at were seen, for one reason or another, as agreeing with the views of the Christian copyists who preserved select writings over others.

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

... 350-415 C.E.) Mathematician and philosopher, murdered in Alexandria by a Christian crowd.

...ege, and at this time no one thought strange that Romans be sheltered in a Christian private school (!), Laureatus proposed for the evening a first game of Res

...) and onomastic evidence points to about 10% of Egypt’s population being Christian by the third quarter of the third century (Roger S. Bagnall, "Religious Con ... fourth century (391 CE) when the temple of Sarapis was fated to fall into Christian hands,<ref>Sozomen, ''Eccl. Hist.'' 7.15. Similarly violent encounters were

...itary life was coming to be held. In the earlier period of the empire, any Christian who voluntarily entered the army was cut off from the Church. If any were c

...isms of the "pagan" world, its culture, religions and institutions, from a Christian viewpoint. Augustine would not be the last writer to use the "fall of Rome"

... in a black hole, as this is the war period between the arab world and the christian counts and the whole are became a huge ''no man's land'' and the frontier b

... Canto XXXIV), who added the fourth word to the first line of a much older Christian hymn, by Venantius Fortunatus. ...rada, respectively a professor and a student in the University of Bologna. Christian Wilhelm Kindleleben, in 1791, wrote the text which is currently in use.

...er Justin Martyr, who accused the Mithraists of diabolically imitating the Christian communion rite.[113] Based upon this, Ernest Renan in 1882 set forth a vivi

...inage with the reigning emperor. The great cult survived until 385, when a Christian mob destroyed the Serapeum of Alexandria, and subsequently the cult was for ... Serapis by residents of Egypt who described themselves as Christians, and Christian worship by those claiming to worship Serapis, suggesting a great confusion

various non Roman cults (Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Muslim and others polytheist

...appear in the dignity of pontiff; but at last the title was assumed by the Christian bishop of Rome.

There is no special initiation into Roman religion like Christian baptism. You can start honoring Roman deities at any moment with any prayer

...s'', but eventually gave the English the word "host" for the bread used in Christian eucharist; and although the English word "host" for the provider of hospita ...imply upon the earth. It is something like the "saying of grace" in later Christian tradition.

...being another—of heathen festivals taken up by the Church and adapted to Christian uses. There is a close resemblance to these rites in the ceremonies of the

==Evolution into the Christian ceremonies of Whitsun Week==

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...o what? I want upper/lower California. I don't want Saints' names in a non Christian religious province. You send the wrong message." ...d so the provinces have names that are neither generic nor associated with Christian saints."

...tivae'' were annual holidays that were moveable feasts (like Easter on the Christian calendar, or Thanksgiving in North America); the date was announced by the

...llen, Ballard, Barren, Breckenridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, carlisle, Christian, Clinton, Crittenden, Cumberland, Davies, Edmunson, Fulton, Graves, Grayson