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If Judaism as a system of doctrine is necessarily syncretistic in its conception of God, then we may expect the same syncretism in its theory of God's relation to man. It must be said at once that the term 'theory' is ill-chosen. It is laid to the charge of Judaism that it has no 'theory' of Sin. This is true. If virtue and righteousness are obedience, then disobedience is both vice and sin.
The established church it conquered and destroyed; the living syncretistic beliefs it cleansed, simplified, and disciplined, but only absorbed by becoming itself a syncretistic religion. But besides Christians and Pagans, there were the Jews, dispersed over the whole Empire. There were at least a million in Egypt, a country which St.
In attempting to defend Catholicism, he has gone far to explain it. To the historian, there is no great mystery about the growth and success of the Western Catholic Church. Christianity was already a syncretistic religion in the second century.
The chief characteristic of the third period of the Phoenician religion was the syncretistic tendency, whereby foreign gods were called in, and either identified with the old national divinities, or joined with them, and set by their side.
"There is still a Pope, then?" "Oh! yes, although one of them has just died." "And what does the Hohenzollern want in Rome?" "No one knows; some say that it is his ambition to become Roman-German emperor of the Evangelical Confession." "A syncretistic emperor dreamt of by John George of Saxony! I don't want to hear anymore. The ways of Providence are strange, and we mortals, what are we?
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