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Paganism Surviving in Christianity

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The author surveys how pre-Christian pagan religions and practices entered and reshaped Christian belief and institutions, arguing that allegorical methods of interpretation, ritual water-worship, sun-centered holidayism, and the fusion of church and state each left lasting marks. He traces the rise of allegory and Gnostic exegesis in interpreting scripture, contends that pagan purification rites influenced baptism and baptismal regeneration, links sun-worship to the replacement of Sabbath observance by Sunday festivals, and examines how pagan models informed ecclesiastical cooperation with civil authority, supporting claims with historical examples and classical testimonies.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text just before the index and relabeled consecutively through the document.

Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

The following changes were made:

p. 78: ἐριδᾶιοι changed to ἐριδαῖοι (of Contentions (ἐριδαῖοι)[70])

p. 86: Footnote anchor inserted (of carnal concupiscence.’”[75])

p. 113: πεῤιῥαίνειν changed to περιῤῥαίνειν and περιμάττεοθαι changed to περιμάττεσθαι (thus: περιῤῥαίνειν, περιμάττεσθαι, περιθειοῦν)

p. 121: φωτιξεσθαι changed to φωτιζεσθαι (ψωτισμός, φωτιζεσθαι, “enlightenment)

p. 142: περιρραντηριον changed to περιῤῥαντήριον (called περιῤῥαντήριον; two)

p. 193: Footnote anchor inserted (essentially political motives.”[177])

p. 197: Footnote anchor inserted (patroness of Origen.”[179])

p. 236: formerly inserted, as in the quoted source (city formerly called)