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Inquiring into extra-biblical sources of Marian piety, belief and doctrine, the author proposes that there is a direct line, unbroken and clearly discernible, from the goddess-cults of the ancients to the reverence paid and eventually the cult accorded to the Virgin Mary. He concludes that in Mariology the Christian genius preserved and transformed some of the best and noblest ideas that paganism developed before it.

Christianity and other religions --- Goddesses --- Christianisme --- Déesses --- Roman --- Relations --- Religion romaine --- Mary, --- Marie, --- History of doctrines --- Histoire des doctrines --- Rome --- Religion --- Roman. --- 232.931 --- -Christianity and other religions --- -Christianity --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Religions --- Female gods --- Gods --- Maria. Mariologie --- History --- Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint --- -History of doctrines --- Religion. --- -Maria. Mariologie --- 232.931 Maria. Mariologie --- -232.931 Maria. Mariologie --- Christianity --- Déesses --- Goddesses, Roman --- Roman goddesses --- ʻAdhrāʼ --- Arogyamata --- Ārōkkiyamāta --- Birhen ng mga Dukha --- Blessed Lady --- Blessed Mother --- Blessed Virgin Mary, --- Hagnē Theotokos --- Madonna, The --- Mama Mary --- Mare de Déu --- Maria, --- Mariam Astuatsatsin --- Marie Théotokos --- Marii︠a︡, --- Maryam, --- Maryja, --- Meryem Ana --- Miryam, --- Mother of God --- Muíre, --- Nossa Senhora --- Our Lady --- Our Lady of Good Health --- Our Lady of Sorrows --- Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament --- Qiddīsah Maryam --- Theotokos --- Vierge Marie, --- Virgen María --- Virgin Mary, --- Virgin of the Poor --- Ynang Maria --- مريم --- مريم العذراء --- 성모마리아 --- Our Lady of Emmitsburg --- Majka Isusova --- Goddesses - Rome. --- Christianity and other religions - Roman. --- Mariam Astuatsatsin, --- Meryem Ana, --- Virgen María, --- Ynang Maria,

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"In the early Roman empire, Christians were seen by pagans as overthrowers of ancient gods and destroyers of the prevailing social order. Allegations that Christians recognized each other by secret marks, met at night and made love to one another indiscriminately, worshipped the head of an ass and the genitals of their high priests, and ate children were widely believed. In examining these charges and the Christian response to them, Benko has provided a persuasively argued and refreshing, if controversial, perspective on the confrontation of the pagan and early Christian worlds."[book cover].

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