The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire, Volume 1John Murray, 1884 - Christianity |
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... pure myth , the creation of the excited imagination of the believers ; humanity , as it were , self superhumanised and deified ; not what St. Paul asserts , " God in Christ , reconciling the world unto himself . " At the time of the ...
... pure myth , the creation of the excited imagination of the believers ; humanity , as it were , self superhumanised and deified ; not what St. Paul asserts , " God in Christ , reconciling the world unto himself . " At the time of the ...
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... pure and perfect religion . A wiser policy commenced with Policy of Alexander . The deities of the conquered nations were treated with uniform reverence , the sacri- legious plunder of their temples punished with ex- emplary severity ...
... pure and perfect religion . A wiser policy commenced with Policy of Alexander . The deities of the conquered nations were treated with uniform reverence , the sacri- legious plunder of their temples punished with ex- emplary severity ...
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... pure and philosophical Tsabaism . theism could never be the creed of a barbarous nation struggling with want . " The astral worship of the East is ably and clearly developed in an Ex- cursus at the end of Gesenius's Isaiah . I use ...
... pure and philosophical Tsabaism . theism could never be the creed of a barbarous nation struggling with want . " The astral worship of the East is ably and clearly developed in an Ex- cursus at the end of Gesenius's Isaiah . I use ...
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... pure fiction ; till Nature - worship was almost supplanted by religious fable and hence , by a natural transition , those who discerned God in every thing , multiplied every separate part of creation into a distinct divinity . The mind ...
... pure fiction ; till Nature - worship was almost supplanted by religious fable and hence , by a natural transition , those who discerned God in every thing , multiplied every separate part of creation into a distinct divinity . The mind ...
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... pure theism , in which the Supreme Deity was represented under the symbol of the primal uncreated fire ; and there Nature - worship , under the form of the two conflicting principles , preserved much more of its original simplicity than ...
... pure theism , in which the Supreme Deity was represented under the symbol of the primal uncreated fire ; and there Nature - worship , under the form of the two conflicting principles , preserved much more of its original simplicity than ...
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