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“As seen in Constantine’s originating piety, that supreme deity would have been associated with the sun, and pagans would have recognized, with reason, their own solar cult in such Christian practices as orienting churches to the east, worshipping on ;sun day,’ and celebrating the birth of the deity at the winter solstice.”
James Carroll, Constantine’s Sword, 183.
The point
Argues Constantine's Christianity absorbed pagan solar imagery into church practice and timing.
Audience
Adults
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under a minute · 52 words