The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire, Volume 1John Murray, 1867 - Church history |
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... Religions . About this point of time Christianity appeared . As Rome had united the whole Western world Appearance into one , as it might almost seem , lasting tianity . social system , so Christianity was the first religion which aimed ...
... Religions . About this point of time Christianity appeared . As Rome had united the whole Western world Appearance into one , as it might almost seem , lasting tianity . social system , so Christianity was the first religion which aimed ...
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... religious fanaticism excited among the oppressed . Yet , if the temple was dese- crated , the altar thrown down ... religion should become the rallying point of civil independence ; rarely , if ever , for the purpose of extirpating a ...
... religious fanaticism excited among the oppressed . Yet , if the temple was dese- crated , the altar thrown down ... religion should become the rallying point of civil independence ; rarely , if ever , for the purpose of extirpating a ...
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... religious differences between Macedonian , and Syrian , and Egyptian , and Persian , at once vanished away . On the same principle , and with equal sagacity , Rome , in this as in other respects , aspired to enslave the mind of those ...
... religious differences between Macedonian , and Syrian , and Egyptian , and Persian , at once vanished away . On the same principle , and with equal sagacity , Rome , in this as in other respects , aspired to enslave the mind of those ...
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... religious as well as the civil capital of the world . " The state , as Cicero shows in his Book of Laws , retained the power of declaring what forms of religion were permitted by the law ( licitæ ) ; " but this authority was rarely ...
... religious as well as the civil capital of the world . " The state , as Cicero shows in his Book of Laws , retained the power of declaring what forms of religion were permitted by the law ( licitæ ) ; " but this authority was rarely ...
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... religion , to satisfy those uni- versal propensities of human nature which connect man with a higher order of things . Man , as history and experience teach , is essentially a religious being . There are certain faculties and modes of ...
... religion , to satisfy those uni- versal propensities of human nature which connect man with a higher order of things . Man , as history and experience teach , is essentially a religious being . There are certain faculties and modes of ...
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