Paganize (Verb)
Meaning
Make pagan in character; "The Church paganized Christianity".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..
Examples
- The early Christian missionaries faced the problem of how to prevent local customs from paganizing the new faith they were introducing.
- In the view of many scholars the early Christian missionaries paganized the Christian faith as they attempted to appeal to the local people's gods and goddesses.
- Christianity did not eliminate but rather attempted to paganize many of these indigenous traditions and cultures in Europe during the middle ages.
- The tendency to paganize Christian doctrine continued to be a concern for many church leaders during this time.
- Some critics argue that the church itself had contributed to paganizing its own traditions through many different types of borrowing from existing cultures.