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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... religion which aimed at an universal and permanent moral conquest . The religions of the older world were con- tent with their dominion over the particular The older people which were their several votaries . Religions , Family , tribal ...
... religion which aimed at an universal and permanent moral conquest . The religions of the older world were con- tent with their dominion over the particular The older people which were their several votaries . Religions , Family , tribal ...
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... RELIGIONS . e BOOK I. might be inclined to desert their inefficient protectors who had been found wanting in the hour of ... religious fanaticism excited among the oppressed . Yet , if the temple was dese- crated , the altar thrown down ...
... RELIGIONS . e BOOK I. might be inclined to desert their inefficient protectors who had been found wanting in the hour of ... religious fanaticism excited among the oppressed . Yet , if the temple was dese- crated , the altar thrown down ...
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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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