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Christianity Through The Centuries Analysis

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Earle Cairns in his book "Christianity Through the Centuries" claims that the dethronement of the gods of the peoples defeated by the Roman armies created a spiritual emptiness that was filled by the arrival of the Christian faith. With the Christian invasion around the world, the gods of the Greco-Roman pantheon fell into disrepute, what has been called by historians “the twilight of the gods” (Götterdämmerung). With the advent of the church, the gods of various tribes and nations of the Roman empire collapsed and ceased being worshipped. The historian Will Durant describes that the weathered paganism sought to syncretize itself to Christianity through the worship of pagan gods disguised as Catholic saints, and by means of thought and Greek
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