Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
“Syriac ... was not a prominent element in the language of Palestine in pre-Christian times.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“baptism with water, whether by immersion or sprinkling, is found in numerous pre-Christian religions/cults, dating back to ancient times. Baptism or lustration… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of… — Robert M. Schoch Copy Share Image
“Pagan paths, of which there are many, more often than not, are based upon an acknowledgement of a Divine presence within nature,… — Carole Carlton Copy Share Image
St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
My ego is nothing - look what Alexander the Great achieved. And I felt he was a figure outside time, a figure… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“pre-Christian Judaism, including the disciples during Jesus’s lifetime, never envisaged the death of the Messiah. That is why they never thought of… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Gnosticism is undeniably pre-Christian, with both Jewish and gentile roots. The wisdom of Solomon already contained Gnostic elements and prototypes for the… — Arthur Drews Copy Share Image
