paganizing

How shamefully inexcusable then are the Greek and Roman churches in paganizing the worship of the Christian Church by the encouragement of pictures and images in religious service!

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

When the genuine works of our worthy became known to the Jews, Yosippon was regarded as the true representative of the Jewish point of view against the paganizing traitor.

Josephus

When the genuine works of our worthy became known to the Jews, Yosippon was regarded as the true representative of the Jewish point of view against the paganizing traitor.

Josephus

Dominici does not flatly condemn classical studies, but strenuously opposes the paganizing humanism of the day.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy

Erasmus laughed to scorn the Ciceronian pedantries of Bembo and Sadoleto; he quoted with disgust the paganizing terms in which some Roman preachers travestied the persons and scenes of the Gospels.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

Then they pushed southward, and were in process of paganizing all England when they were turned back by the heroism of Alfred.

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

Edwin Arnold, the paganizing English poet, put Lecky's folly into verse, writing a sonnet in praise of the harlot as the purest of all women -- a sort of devil's compliment to our wives and mothers.

Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade

I should meet the paganizing tendencies of advancing years with security if I could be forearmed with all the weapons of a sanctified life.

Father and Son: a study of two temperaments

Cyril represented the paganizing, Nestor the philosophizing party of the Church.

History of the Conflict between Religion and Science

Plotinus wrote against the paganizing Christians, or Gnostics.

Letters on Literature