Shane Williamson’s Reviews > Paul: The Pagans' Apostle > Status Update
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"Belief, as moderns view it--the sincerity or the authenticity or intensity of some inner disposition or psychological state of an individual believer--is not native to this [Greco-Roman] worldview. Ancients focused instead on acts of deference, on offerings, or on what we might designate 'cult,' which enacted affection and esteem." (70)
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Shane Williamson
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"It was impossible to live in a Greco-Roman city without living with its gods." (63)
"Ethnicity was an expression of cult." (64)
"Heaven and earth ran along ethnic lines." (64)
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"Ethnicity was an expression of cult." (64)
"Heaven and earth ran along ethnic lines." (64)
