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Often appears with: myth and the gods of the nations · temple conversion to chapels · roman prefect authority · rhetoric and persuasion · renouncing idols · religious persecution and toleration · pulpit coordination · psalm quotations against pagan gods · pagan sacrifice · martyrdom and holy death · martyr preparation · justice as a virtue
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“All the gods of the nations are devils, but the Lord made the heavens.” Bede, the Venerable, Saint, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England · precept
Gibbon critiques Christian preaching as a tool of mass emotion: bishops and presbyters address crowds, coordinated pulpit rhetoric spreads church doctrine and monastic ideals, and preaching can inflame heresy and sedition.
observes, that ancient Greece might perhaps contain fifteen or twenty *azyla* or sanctuaries; a number which at present may be found in Italy within the walls of a single city.] V. The bishop was the perpetual censor of the morals of his people The discipline of penance was digested into a system of canonical jurisprudence, 114 which accurately defined the duty of private or public confession, the rules of evidence,…
Cortes regroups Cholulla’s chiefs and explains Christianity, demanding the end of idolatry, human sacrifice, and temple abominations, even as the leaders promise destruction but keep postponing it.
in the recent attack. Our general, however, merely inquired who the rightful successor was according to their laws; and on being informed the late cazique's brother, he appointed him governor. As soon as the town was again filled with people, and the markets frequented as usual, Cortes assembled the papas, chiefs, and the principal inhabitants, and explained to them the nature of our holy religion, and showed them t…
After preaching against idols, Cecile convinces Tiburce to renounce pagan worship, and both are led onward to Christian witness; the story then turns to the Roman authorities’ demand for sacrifice.
But now *at erst* in truth our dwelling is.” *for the first time* How know’st thou this,” quoth Tiburce; “in what wise?” Quoth Valerian, “That shall I thee devise* *describe “The angel of God hath me the truth y-taught, Which thou shalt see, if that thou wilt reny* *renounce The idols, and be clean, and elles nought.” [And of the miracle of these crownes tway Saint Ambrose in his preface list to say…
Boniface argues that idols are powerless and devilish, quoting the Psalms, and commands Edwin to destroy wooden and stone idols and heed Christian preaching and baptismal rebirth.
believing and being released from the bonds of captivity to the Devil, you may, through the co-operating power of the Holy and undivided Trinity, be partaker of the eternal life. “How great guilt they lie under, who adhere in their worship to the pernicious superstition of idolatry, appears by the examples of the perishing of those whom they worship. Wherefore it is said of them by the Psalmist, ‘All the…