On Monday, I began my review of Steven Smith's Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac, and I finished at the point where Smith, having surveyed ancient paganism, ...
My duties as a religion writer forced me to watch Mel Gibson's Jesus movie, "The Passion of the Christ," two times in three days, an assignment that also interrupted my reading of "God Against the ...
Today’s fights over the religion in the public square are replays of fights from two thousand years ago. In The Idea of a Christian Society (1939), T. S. Eliot saw a conflict between Christianity and ...
Here are some generally agreed-upon facts about religious trends in the United States. Institutional Christianity has weakened drastically since the 1960s. Lots of people who once would have been ...
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Why Medieval Churches Were Built on Pagan Temples?
Across Europe, many medieval churches stand on land that was considered sacred long before Christianity arrived. At first ...
JULIAN by Gore Vidal. 503 pages. Little, Brown. $6.95. No odder figure ever guided the destinies of the Holy Roman Empire than the Emperor Julian Augustus (circa 331-363), known as Julian the Apostate ...
Christianity spread across the Roman Empire through persecution, cultural adaptation, and the transformation of pagan beliefs ...
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