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With a missionary commitment to both Jews and Gentiles (non-Jews), Christianity rapidly spread into the greater Roman empire and beyond. Here, Christianity came into contact with the dominant Pagan religions.
paganism, Christian term used to designate those religions that do not worship the God of Abraham, the figure central to both Christianity and to other Abrahamic religions like Judaism and Islam.
28 Μαρ 2008 · To juxtapose ‘paganism’ and ‘Christianity’ in late antiquity is not to compare like with like. ‘Christianity’ designates a specific religious tradition, anchored materially and semantically in the recognition of the crucified and risen Jesus of Nazareth as Christ and Lord.
8 Νοε 2021 · Eventually paganism, rebranded with biblical terms, became what the world now considers to be Christianity. For 2000 years, true Christianity has survived only as small isolated groups. Almost all of what is now called Christianity is pagan in origin.
Among the intellectuals there was a more conscious fusion of pagan and Christian beliefs and doctrines, beginning with Clement of Alexandria and Origen, culminating in the late Gnostic and Neoplatonic writers.
Pagans and Christians is divided into three parts. The first two describe the outlook and experience of pagans and Christians from the early second to the mid-third centuries, in an area chosen mainly with the Christian evidence in mind, and broadly definable as the Greek-
It focuses primarily on pagan cult and philosophy, official (especially imperial) attitudes toward religion, and normative Christian theology and practice. The article also discusses the participation of Christians in rites traditionally offered to the gods and the problem of the survival of such rituals into later Christianity.
