A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

to the Chaldeans, for instance, “the stones had some religious associations and we are told of their affinity with the stars” (P ...

The Pythagorean Way A similar and related approach to a new rational religion, that is, to the theologia naturalis, was that of ...

heavenly laws; they conceived the theory of planetary harmony as a music produced by the planets. Late republican philosophers a ...

beginning and under Numa, had worshiped their gods without any idol (frag. 38 Cardauns). Varro (Antiquitates rerum divinarum, es ...

Conflation of Rational Theology and Revelations After Varro, the most important Roman theologian was Cornelius Labeo, probably a ...

Pagan Literature on Revelations The Greco-Roman world reacted to the offensive of Jewish and Christian prophecy which was often ...

Theological Literature or Sects’ Holy Books? A number of arguments have been raised about the existence of religious sects and r ...

literature. A Mithraic leader like Maximus, Julian the Apostate’s counselor, was also a theurgist (Eunapius, Vitae philosophorum ...

of the Father and of Jesus the Son in the name of Jesus himself, in the alphabet’s secret harmonies, and in the religious value ...

The Main Concerns of Theologians during the Late Imperial Age The learned pagans, before surrendering, resorted to the highest f ...

Public religion was sometimes able to purchase some benefit from the emperor, but it could hardly purchase the soul’s salvation ...

from the Roman Phrygianum near the Vatican, and other evidence show that, thanks to Julian’s religious politics, the mystery rel ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Institutionalized Religious Options: Mithraism Richard Gordon Attracting Attention If the sun is the source ...

By the same token, they could claim that Mithraism, like the Egyptian cults, and that of the Jews, was far older than Greek and ...

cyberspace. Indeed, hardly a week passes but someone claims to have unlocked the secret of its meaning – it has become a sort of ...

to bridge the gap between Iranian Mithra, known mainly through the Avestan hymn (YaBt) in his honor, composed c. 450 – 400bc, an ...

Whatever its origins, the Roman cult seems to have been successful mainly in Italy, in the northwestern provinces, especially Ge ...

the beef mainly consumed by the garrison of the local fort (von den Driesch and Pollath 2000). In one of the shopping-lists from ...

myriad private religious associations, of the traditional gods, the dendrophori attached to the cult of Cybele, the pastophoriof ...

(Persian), Heliodromus(Sun-runner), Pater(Father). These names, in this order, are certainly attested at Santa Prisca on the Ave ...