Tag: Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology

  • Alexander Wilder on Pagans and the Value of the Classical Religions

    Alexander Wilder on Pagans and the Value of the Classical Religions

    Limited Knowledge of Religion in Antiquity The term Pagan, or paganus originally meant, an inhabitant of the village, or a peasant, but came to refer to perverted heretical and heterodox beliefs outside of the theology of the Catholic Church. Therefore, what is considered perverted must come from the devil, hence, idolatrous and pagan. The Jews, Christians,…