We could not avoid contrasting the early days of nakedness and midnight heathendom with this enlightened, well-dressed company before us.
He in His infinite wisdom and forethought had gone before and prepared every step of the way; He had opened every door and enabled the mission to be thus planted in raw heathendom where Christ had not been named.
People on first coming into contact with raw heathendom are seldom capable of doing much preaching to them in such a manner that the native can understand and appreciate.
Yes, this is a Christian home, from which we hope and pray that the evils of heathendom have flown forever.
Hence the revival of heathendom in the North, by which a king like Olof Skoetkonung for a long time was influenced, finding his chief delight in the association with poets and saga men.
It was a struggle between heathendom and Christianity, democracy and aristocracy, provincial particularism and centralized state unity.
But, whether in heathendom or Christendom, a regular priesthood and an elaborate ritual cannot be supported without the offerings of the faithful.
And indeed Seneca has probably travelled as far towards it as any one born in heathendom ever did.
And heathendom tended more and more under the Empire to fix its devotion on the source of all light and life.
Rachel had won the respect of Elizabeth, who prayed daily for her conversion from heathendom and that she might see the claims the Christian religion had upon her.
Though heathen writers outside of Scandinavia are lacking, references to Germanic heathendom fortunately survive in several Continental Christian historians of earlier date than any of our Scandinavian sources.
The Divine Mythology of the North The Icelandic Eddas are the only vernacular record of Germanic heathendom as it developed during the four centuries which in England saw the destruction of nearly all traces of the heathen system.
It was as much a test of heathendom as the eating of horse-flesh, sacred to Odin, and therefore unclean to Christian men.
With Charles Martell, with Pippin, and with Charlemagne, Latin Christianity is the symbol of civilized order, while heathendom and savagery are identical.
The natural approach to such a people was through their tribal kings, and Patrick appears to have made his prime onslaught upon Druidical heathendom at Tara, the abode of the high king of Ireland.
If mere sincerity and devout motives are sufficient for God's acceptance, then heathendom is on a par with Christendom in the sight of heaven.
Christendom as well as heathendom is in a ferment with human conceptions and conflicting theories in relation to God, his will, his purposes, and his requirements.
Footnote 415: But almost all the Apologists acknowledged that heathendom possessed prophets.
Make bare Thy arm of infinite power that this abomination of heathendom may be purged of its vain idolatry, and that Thy Israel may triumph over the hosts of the sinful.
It has been the will of God that I suffer in order that through me some souls born into heathendom may thus be redeemed from the torments of the damned.
During his first period he gave himself up to classical, bloodless poems, of which one of the most noted is "Two Worlds," which depicts the clash of heathendom and Christianity at the epoch of the fall of Rome.
He had been a witness of the Pentecostal marvel, a phenomenon which heathendom had never known.
To show the divine reformation wrought by Christianity it must suffice that, once for all, the Apostle of the Gentiles seized heathendom by the hair, and branded indelibly on her forehead the stigma of her shame.
Heathendom had grown to a monster which, like the decrepit Saturn, devoured its own offspring.
The history of its origin is one of the most remarkable myths of the country, and is a very epitome of the history of the conflict of Heathendom with Christendom.
For the transition from heathendom to Christianity was the work not of years but of centuries; the claims made by religion changed, but the underlying conceptions for a long time remained unaltered.
The transition period from heathendom to Christianity supplies in most cases the mental and moral conflicts round which centres the interest of these plays.
These examples will suffice to show the close connection between the conceptions of heathendom and popular Christianity, and how the cloak of heathen association has fallen on the shoulders of the saints of the Christian Church.
Even in Mercia itself heathendom was dead with Penda.
His power was bent to carry forward the conversion of all England, but prisoned as it was to the central districts of the country heathendom fought desperately for life.
Sidenote: Oswiu] The terrible struggle between heathendom and Christianity was followed by a long and profound peace.
The conquest of Britain by the pagan English thrust a wedge of heathendominto the heart of this great communion and broke it into two unequal parts.
Similarly he retains the ceremonial dances of heathendom and has secret dancing guilds, of whose mysteries the white man can learn nothing.
God alone can rescue the famishing and perishing multitudes of Christendom and heathendom from the abyss of temporal and spiritual ruin and death which yawns under their feet.
Heathendom was only a corruption of signs into realities; Judaism was a religion of signs carefully interpreted in view of the later and fuller revelation.
It expelled cruelty; it curbed passion; it branded suicide; it punished and repressed an execrable infanticide; it drove the shameless impurities of heathendom into a congenial darkness.
The charge of incivisme, so fatal in this reign of terror, was sufficient to ruin a body of men who scorned the sacrifices of heathendom and turned away with abhorrence from its banquets and gayeties.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heathendom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
