The Christian lifestyle itself distanced it from that of the pagan world.

Traditionally it is held that the martyrs were legion and that they played a huge part in converting the pagan world.

In the atmosphere of the place there was something almost biblical, and yet this was a pagan world I had stepped into.

In a word, we cannot reconstruct or even imagine the beautiful and astonishing pagan world.

Human sacrifice was common in the pagan world.

How could the Christians explain their faith to the pagan world?

In the pagan world, everything here below was seen as a replica or copy of a reality in the celestial world.

The need is to insert Christ into a pagan world and its structures.

Is there fate amongst us still, send down from the pagan world of old, that such things must be, and in such way?

A folk who stood against the roaring and the jeering of the pagan world.