Many claims have been made about the resemblances between Christianity and earlier myths and religions. Some of those claims are true and others aren’t.
The way that you describe debt and the way that Western society thinks about debt with respect to the Bronze Age, the Fertile Crescent, Mesopotamia, in the aftermath of the agricultural revolution, and the way that Greco-Roman society and Christianity dealt with those ideas was, well, it was...
544). Celsus, famous for his attacks on Christianity, as well as on neopagans and agnostics, believes that the world was created by a kind of idiot God; we are spiritual beings trapped in a physical and evil cosmos. The response to the planetary ecological crisis, for John Gray (2015)...
There is no reason why this should not continue into the 21st century and beyond, now that we are responding to new challenges (Christianity, Existentialism, even Nihilism), that the culture has changed again (and has become more global), and that new teachers have emerged (Larry Becker, Don...
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Last Updated on Thu, 19 May 2022 | Mystical Christianity Was a base of support in the towns and cities, some of which were self-governing, and many of which were as impatient with church privilege as the princes. The third was the combination of a charismatic leader, Martin Luther (1483...
"Ever since I can remember, his picture was mounted in the church and it was everywhere we went. Just like Jesus is for Christianity, you start learning from a very early age what that role is for any particular sect, but for us in the fundamentalist Mormon church that I grew up in,...
How did Christianity emerge and become the official religion of the Roman Empire? Why was Christianity persecuted in the Roman Empire until 324? Why was the Roman Empire more centralized than classical Greece? How did Romans adopt Greek culture in literature? How did the concepts of fate ...
He managed to unite Denmark and part of Norway into a single kingdom then introduced Christianity into Denmark. He left a large monument, the Jelling rune stone, in memory of his parents. He was killed in 986 during a battle with his son, Svend Forkbeard. Choosing this name for the ...
Christianity, of course, was always asking people to think about what Jesus or one of the saints might do or say at challenging moments. There were many images of the charitable actions of St. Francis of Assisi – for instance, of the time he gave away his spare blue cloak. A reminder...