From its very origin Hellenic philosophy contributed to the negative process by undermining the people’s faith in heathenism, preparing for the overthrow of idolatry, and leading heathenism to take a despondent view of its own future.
Again, rapid conversion will be furthered or hindered according as the new home is one where already from Roman times Christian institutions existed or even had existed, or is one where the old primitive heathenism still prevailed.
In another work he makes the representatives of heathenism in the age of Constantine act like Homeric heroes, and those of Christianity speak “like theologians of the age of Bossuet.
This preparation has its beginning in the very cradle of humanity, and is soon parted in the two directions of Heathenism and Judaism.
This was the death hour of heathenismin the Roman empire.
But heathenism also, contemptible as Judaism appeared to it, was susceptible to Jewish influences, impressed by the deeper religious contents of Judaism, and though only sporadic, instances of such influence were by no means rare.
The moral faults of heathenism flow from its religious faults.
Olaf and his successor used every effort to further the interests of the mission, which had made considerable progress in Gothland, while in Swealand, with its national pagan sanctuary of Upsala, heathenism still continued dominant.
The religious development of heathenism has nevertheless been by no means stripped of all elements of truth.
Heathenism in ancient times, heathenism now as we see it in India, was and is very liberal.
It looked as if heathenism was to disappear under Dutch rule.
Heathenism is repugnant to the deeply religious nature of our nation; the German people do not wish to dethrone God, nor are they ready to bow the knee before the empty idol of a soulless enlightenment.
It was not amid the scattered and decimated savages of the Pacific or of America that the citadel of heathenism was found, nor by them that the world, old and new, was to be made the kingdom of Christ.
In a later century Julian, perhaps following Maximin Daza, whom he copied in trying to organize heathenism into a new catholic church, urged benevolence on his fellow-pagans, if they wished to compete with the Christians.
The principle of heathenism is "the antagonist of Christianity: one is from man, and for man; the other from God, and for God.
The churches were still shut, and bore upon their porches such inscriptions as savored more of heathenism than of Christianity.
As a good general, Landolf moreover understood how everywhere to seize the right points where with the most effect heathenism might be grappled with and overthrown.
So were the hearts of the children turned to their fathers; and it was not long before heathenism had disappeared from the valley of the Oerze, and the Lord Jesus was become the King to whom every knee in the country was bowed.
Hermann resolved to storm this fortress, and therewith to destroy the bulwark of heathenism on this side the Elbe.
And now I must go on to tell what more befell that same day, in which the devilish nature of heathenism among our forefathers was shown as frightfully as in their murderous sacrifices.
An influx of heathenism occurred on two later occasions: in the ninth century there was an invasion by the heathen Danes under Guthrum; and in the eleventh century the heathen king Cnut led his hordes to victory.
Rome transformed itself from heathenism and claimed to be Christian--the Kingdom of Christ.
The result has been, that society has been preserved, even though the authority of God has been condemned; and even the annals of heathenism afford us very many displays of those kindly feelings, which adorn and beautify human nature.
Christianity softens, subdues, and renders docile the human mind, before the dark folds of heathenism have deepened and thickened with increasing years.
Notwithstanding all the trash talked about Druids and other persons of this kind, we know extremely little of the heathenism of the British Isles.
Heathenism had been a disciplinary training like Judaism" (Commentary in loc.
Let the Galatians be convinced of this, and they will understand what Paul is going to say directly; they will perceive that Judaic conformity is for them a backsliding in the direction of their former heathenism (vv.
In Judaism this was as much lower than its spiritual element, as in Heathenism it was higher.
Half lies, half devilry: such was the popular heathenism of the day.
In Galatian heathenism Paul appears to recognise "rudiments" of truth and a certain preparation for Christianity.
This is the section where Mohammedanism, that corrupt mixture of heathenism with a small tincture of Christian truth, has its home, and whence it has gone out on its work throughout the world.
And to these churches which he had won out of the raw stuff of heathenism he taught the same world-wide message.
My dear Mr. von Harten, above all your heathenism watches our good old God, our Father, and therefore I fearlessly drink to your toast.
The Policy of the Sons of Constantine Toward Heathenism and Donatism Under the sons of Constantine a harsher policy toward heathenism was adopted.
The Western Church Toward the End of the Fourth Century Heathenism lingered as a force in society longer in the West than in the East, not merely among the peasantry, but among the higher classes.
The following canons show the influx of heathenism into the Church, resulting from the changed status of the Church.
The emphasis was laid especially upon the religious problems, and in the system it may be fairly said that the religious aspirations of heathenism found their highest and purest expression.
With this heathenism the Church had to struggle, either casting it out in whole or in part, or rendering it as innocuous as possible.
Julian attempted to inject into a purified heathenism those elements in the Christian Church which he was forced to admire.
The Repression of Heathenism under Constantine Constantine’s religious policy in respect to heathenism may have been from the first to establish Christianity as the sole religion of the Empire and to put down heathenism.
In course of time heathenism disappeared as a religious system.
In their policy toward heathenism and dissent, the policy of Constantine was carried to its logical completion in the establishment of Christianity as the only lawful religion of the Empire (§ 67).
Under them the policy of toleration ceased, heathenism was proscribed.
An anthropomorphic view of God for a Christian means heathenism or heresy: a theomorphic view of man is of the essence of his faith[74].
Such advantages are they enjoying who escaped from the confessed heathenism of Southern slavery to the island in question.
The famous battle of Clontarf, the final struggle between Christianity and heathenism on the soil of Ireland, was fought here on Good Friday in the year 1014 between the Danes under Sigtryg, the Viking, and the Irish under Brian Boru.
In 1847 he went to address a meeting of his sympathizers at Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin, where Brian Boru won his great victory over the Danes in the last battle between Christianity and heathenism upon the soil of Ireland.
In Leif's day, heathenismand lawlessness were on the decline.
That great calamity bore in the first instance the appearance of a triumph of heathenism over Jehovah the God of Israel.
They had been destroyed by Josiah, but must have been restored to their former use during the revival of heathenism which followed his death.
In heathenism this feeling took an entirely wrong direction; in Israel it was gradually liberated from its material associations and stood forth as an ethical fact.
The first is the naive, half-conscious heathenism which crept in insensibly through contact with Phoenician and Canaanite neighbours (vv.
Heathenism was hospitable, welcoming new gods and goddesses, while Christianity was exclusive, opposing with all its might every other form of worship.
All through heathenism you find that principle working.
Those who knew heathenism from the inside knew that they were sober truth.
That was a picture ofheathenism drawn from the life and submitted to the judgment of those who knew the original only too well.
The universality of the gift was a startling thing in a world which, as far as cultivated heathenism was concerned, might rightly be called aristocratic, and by the side of a religion of privilege into which Judaism had degenerated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heathenism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: animism; barbarism; dark; darkness; fetishism; heathenism; idolatry; paganism; savagery
