In fact, if anything was wanting to show that a general knowledge of the history of ancient religionought to form part of our education, it was the panic created by M.
The history of ancient religion is too important, too sacred a subject to be used as a masked battery against modern infidelity.
Mr. Hardwick intends to give in his work, of which the third volume has just been published, a complete panorama of ancient religion.
Footnote 151: Farnell, 'Sociological Hypotheses concerning the Position of Women in Ancient Religion,' in Archiv f.
Farnell, 'Sociological Hypotheses concerning the Position of Women in Ancient Religion,' in Archiv f.
Sociological Hypotheses concerning the Position of Women in Ancient Religion'; in Archiv für Religionswissenschaft, vol.
Gomme, quoting and following Robertson Smith, believes that "mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
Sir George subscribes to Robertson Smith's statement that "Mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
The contention that myth was "no essential part of ancient religion" is based upon a fundamental misconception of the spoken or written story of the gods.
The chief work of the seventeenth century on ancient religion is the De Theologia Gentili of G.
What it aims at illustrating is a certain—if you like, the negative—aspect of ancient religion.
Nowhere in ancient religion, as far as we can trace it, did a powerful religious personality strike in with a radical transformation, with a direct rejection of old ideas and dogmatic accentuation of new ones.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ancient religion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
