How To Use Pre-christian In A Sentence
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The Greek letters XP combined in a monogram occur on pre-Christian coins (e.g. the Attic tetradrachma and some coins of the Ptolemies), and in some Greek manuscripts of the Christian period they are employed as an abbreviation of such words as (see Greek words 2, 3, 4).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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It is unlikely that the Irish needed explanation of the concept of three persons in one, as triads were central to pre-Christian Celtic religious tradition.
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Fujiwara's fictional art-market foundation is pointedly pre-Christian; he wants, he suggests, to reference a period before art was required to be "transcendental" or "moral" and link it to its strictly "commercialised" roots.
Frieze art fair 2010 – review
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However, Jenkins said demands for reburial were now coming from minority groups in Britain, including pagans and druids, while Manchester consulted the group Honouring the Ancient Dead, which campaigns for reburial of pre-Christian British remains, before removing the Worsley Man head.
Museums avoid displaying human remains 'out of respect'
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Pre-Christian sacred geometry was incorporated into church architecture.
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There was a pre-Christian sect called "the Essenes" that was influential in the moulding of Christianity, and it behooves us to look at them briefly.
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While Christianity claims to have gradually lifted humanity out of dark ignorance of a dark pre-Christian world, the truth is opposite.
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Along the path there is a well, which symbolises the beginning of life, while further along is a dolmen, a pre-Christian tomb, representing the end of life.
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Though pre-Christian in origin, this egg symbolism was in agreem ... read more»
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They may have been part of a pre-Christian religious ritual or they may have been communal property in which corn or oats was pounded or ground.
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Their pre-Christian religion could be described as animism - the belief that everything is alive with natural or supernatural spirits.
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Holy Church, is our philosophy of life and we hold that any attempt to educate a youth in what we call secularism is a retrogression to a lower level than that of pre-Christian culture.
Catholic Problems in Western Canada
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There's a broch, Pictish stones and St Moluag's chapel, believed to be pre-Christian.
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Thus the fateful clash between settlers from the culture of Aristotle, St. Paul, Da Vinci, Luther, and Newton and aboriginal horsemen from the buffalo plains happened as though in a time warp—as though the former were looking backward thousands of years at premoral, pre-Christian, low-barbarian versions of themselves.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
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Mithraism is not, in fact, a pre-Christian religion.
Carry-Over Thread
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In Pre-Christian times, when everything else was brown and dormant in winter, people used evergreen plants to decorate their dwellings as a reminder that life would return to the landscape in spring.
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Each region, no matter how inaccessible, possesses its own "biography" of streams, pre-Christian earth mounds, coach stations and lay-bys.
Map of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt – review
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Fujiwara's fictional art-market foundation is pointedly pre-Christian; he wants, he suggests, to reference a period before art was required to be "transcendental" or "moral" and link it to its strictly "commercialised" roots.
Frieze art fair 2010 – review
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Here classical motifs and details mix freely with medieval ones in plain ink and wash, which were considered appropriate for pre-Christian themes.
Pen and Parchment
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Calcium oxide, more commonly known as lime or quicklime, has been studied by scholars as far back as the pre-Christian era.
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Take away the saints and our beliefs about the dignity and destiny of human beings and the only thing left is pre-Christian superstition regarding the dead," author Page McKean Zyromski wrote in an article for Catholic Update magazine.
On Halloween Sunday, Some Opt For All Saints' Parties
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But if pre-Christians come expecting God - sorry!
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To make this credible, the pre-Christian date for Kural has been replaced by more recent dates.
Rajiv Malhotra: How Evangelists Invented 'Dravidian Christianity'
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Kathy found Web sites that claim the title crone hasn't always been derogatory; in pre-Christian times, old women were particularly important members of the community.
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Pre-Christian epic ballads, agricultural songs, laments, and tales dating back to before the tenth century were recorded for the first time in the seventeenth century.
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“Homer of the North,” could fulfill Rousseauistic, deistic, and preromantic visions of a pre-Christian society unspoiled by institutions and filled with love, melancholy, and nature.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Much pre-Christian paganism, in fact, had not even advanced to the point where cultic ritual was combined with an interest in ethical or philosophical questions of goodness and right and truth.
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It has been suggested that it is linked to pre-Christian celebrations of a fruitful harvest and that the male goat or 'Puck' was a pagan symbol of fertility, like the pagan god Pan.
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The Ancient Ethiopians (also called Kushites and Meroites – from Meroe their last Pre-Christian capital in the area of today's Bagrawiyah in Sudan) were Kuhites – associated with the Modern Kushites of the Horn of Africa, the Oromos, the Sidamas, the Somalis, and also with the Berbers of Kabylia (Algeria), the Tuareg, and the Fulani and Hausa speaking nations of Western Africa.
Open Letter to H. E. Mr. Gurjit Singh, Ambassador of India in Abyssinia (Fake 'Ethiopia')
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There are the remains of a number of oratories and some stone monuments that may be pre-Christian.
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The pre-Christian religion of the Fijians was both animistic and polytheistic, and included a cult of chiefly ancestors.
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They may have been part of a pre-Christian religious ritual or they may have been communal property in which corn or oats was pounded or ground.
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I personally find the early and pre-Christian era of history to be a fascinating one.
Amazing Thread v.2.0
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That the idea of incarnate deity should be found in pre-Christian Hindu thought is not so remarkable when we consider that it answers to the yearning of the human heart for union with God.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Pre-Christian warriors hoped to meet a quick, short death, hopefully heroically in battle.
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Asatru and Heathenry are names for Germanic Reconstructionism, which promotes the indigenous, pre-Christian religion of the Northern Europeans.
Pagans for President! Or, at least, City Council Rep! « Dating Jesus
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Pre-Christian sacred geometry was incorporated into church architecture.
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In Pre-Christian times, when everything else was brown and dormant in winter, people used evergreen plants to decorate their dwellings as a reminder that life would return to the landscape in spring.
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The Witch-cult is the term for a hypothetical pre-Christian, pagan religion of Europe that allegedly survived into at least the early modern period.
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There was a pre-Christian sect called "the Essenes" that was influential in the moulding of Christianity, and it behooves us to look at them briefly.
