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Plato and Aristotle, Fresco from The School of Athens in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City. Virtuous pagan is a concept in Christian theology that addressed the fate of the unlearned—the issue of nonbelievers who were never evangelized and consequently during their lifetime had no opportunity to recognize Christ, but nevertheless led virtuous lives, so that it seemed objectionable to ...
The Persian king brings in Aphroditian, a learned pagan, to serve as moderator and judge of the debate; Aphroditian proceeds to agree with the Christians and lauds them as correct. One of the pieces of evidence Aphroditian brings up in favor of the Christians is the account of the Magi and their travels inscribed on golden tablets, which is ...
Tytila (died c. 616), semi-historical pagan king of East Anglia; Veleda, priestess and prophetess of the Bructeri tribe; Waluburg, Semnonian seeress in the service of the governor of Roman Egypt; Wehha, king of the East Angles; Widukind (died 808), pagan Saxon leader and the chief opponent of Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars; Wingurich, Gothic ...
A marble statue of Jupiter, king of the Roman gods. Paganism (Latin: pāgānus, lit. 'rural', 'rustic', later 'civilian') is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, [1] or ethnic religions other than Judaism.
Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz is a 2015 book by the British philosopher John Marenbon.It is about the treatment of pre-Christian thought among Christian writers and theologians from late antiquity to the early 18th century.
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Even the vanished Pagan Tower is spoken of, on which was built a chapel to St. Nicholas where the saint had worked numerous miracles. There were several nut trees forming a circular shape near what is now the Porta Rufina Station , just at the outskirts of the city, where witches would dance and chant: "To the nut tree of Benevento, over the ...
This, he writes, is like the pagan Norse gods, or the classical era gods of Mount Olympus: "a full-blown pagan Neoplatonism". Thirdly, unlike the ancient gods, his gods are at best only sporadically interested in the affairs of Middle-earth; instead, they defend their own "fairyland", Valinor , and the rest of the world is like a fairy-tale in ...