pagan

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Both authors admired the way that the medievals combined pagan virtues with Christian theology to sustain a culture that was simultaneously vital and humane.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Perhaps his Ye Olde Tinder profile read: “Aspiring playwright seeks older woman, pagan preferred.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Catholic Normans, returning from the Crusades, have been granted the land and titles previously held by the pagan Saxons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Historians believe that Valentine's Day is rooted in the Roman love and fertility festival, Lupercalia, and was a move by Gelasius I to Christianise pagan traditions.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025

This account presented Muslim and Christian philosophers with a problem which had not worried their pagan predecessors: how did it come about that the four elements did not form perfect concentric circles?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton