Bible Dictionary: Roman Religion

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Roman Religion

ROMAN RELIGION

See ROMAN EMPIRE AND CHRISTIANITY, III; ROME, IV.

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This Whole Confession of These Beings, in which they Declare that ...
... tell you that there is no God but one, the God whom we adore, is quite sufficient
to clear us from the crime of treason, chiefly against the Roman religion. ...
/.../tertullian/apology/chapter xxiv this whole confession.htm

Introductory Chapter.
... But the good influence was only short-lived: the mercenary spirit of the Roman religion,
so rife at that era, was infused into the new Orders, and the ...
/.../luckock/studies in the book of common prayer/introductory chapter.htm

Grecian Literature, and the Roman Empire.
... Was the Greek, mythology the work of artistic fantasy and a religion of poesy, so
was the Roman the work of calculation adapted to state purposes, political ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 12 grecian literature and.htm

The Roman Empire at the Time of the Birth of Christ. Upwards of a ...
... and thus, at this period, the educated portion of the population of the Roman Empire
had all an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the religion of the ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/killen/the ancient church/chapter i the roman empire.htm

The Church under the Roman Empire
... in favour of the Christians; and from the time of his sole supremacy, AD324,
Christianity and not Paganism became the acknowledged religion of the Roman empire ...
/.../blunt/a key to the knowledge of church history/chapter vi the church under.htm

Of the Sixth Seal.
... slaughter, routed, and dispersed; until at length, in complete despair, no one could
be found who would bring assistance to the Roman religion falling with ...
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The Roman Power.
... his friend, Antipas, an Edomite by birth, and of the Jewish religion, persuaded
him ... The great awfulness of the Roman power was in the sureness of its conquests ...
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The Roman Conflagration and the Neronian Persecution.
... The Roman empire was at first, by its laws of justice, the protector of ... But now it
rushed into deadly conflict with the new religion, and opened, in the name ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 37 the roman conflagration.htm

In the Fifteenth Year of Tiberius Cæsar and under the Pontificate ...
... religion. The ancient Roman religion had long given place to foreign rites,
the more mysterious and unintelligible the more enticing. It ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xi in the fifteenth.htm

Galilee
... imported rites. In any case, a synthesis was rapidly established between these
cults and the official Graeco-Roman religion. The names ...
/.../lake/landmarks in the history of early christianity/i galilee.htm

Subtopics

Irony: The Roman Soldiers to Jesus

Roman

Roman Army

Roman Empire

Roman Empire: Citizenship In by Birth

Roman Empire: Citizenship In by Purchase

Roman Empire: Ruled by Augustus Caesar

Roman Empire: Ruled by Claudius Caesar

Roman Empire: Ruled by Nero

Roman Empire: Ruled by Tiberius Caesar

Roman Empire: The Right of Appeal