{"id":7170,"date":"2018-05-14T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T09:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistaespiritu.istomas.org\/current-relevance-of-saint-augustines-critique-to-paganism-in-de-civitate-dei\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T09:58:48","slug":"current-relevance-of-saint-augustines-critique-to-paganism-in-de-civitate-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistaespiritu.istomas.org\/en\/current-relevance-of-saint-augustines-critique-to-paganism-in-de-civitate-dei\/","title":{"rendered":"Current relevance of Saint Augustine\u2019s critique to paganism in De Civitate Dei"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Miguel \u00c1ngel Belmonte S\u00e1nchez<\/p>\n

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Esp\u00edritu: ISSN<\/acronym> 0014-0716,\u00a0Year 61, Isseu 144 (jul-dec), 2012<\/a>, pages<\/abbr> 313-328<\/p>\n

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Spanish<\/p>\n

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The arguments used by Saint Augustine in his theoretical and practical discourse, against ancient paganism (especially against those arguments put forward by Celsus and Porphyry) are useful in part for the challenges nowadays embodied in the so-called neopaganism (and its leading intellectuals such as De Benoist or Aug\u00e9). In this article a distinction is made in the Augustinian reaction between aspects relating to pagan cult and those relating to \u2018dogmatic\u2019 content. In the latter case, the multiform, inconsistent and unsystematic theology of ancient paganism reappears today as a pluralistic, sacralizing and superstitious attitude, tinged in some author\u2019s writings as politically correct multiculturalism. In the former case, the pagan cult reappears in the form of cultural policies that are tolerant towards any apparently religious phenomena such as Satanism and Halloween. Saint Augustine\u2019s message for the man of today and yesterday is clear: the syncretism which is latent in every pagan attitude or idea is wholly incompatible with the due reverence for faith in God the Creator.<\/p>\n

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Saint Augustine, De civitate Dei, paganism, neopaganism
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The arguments used by Saint Augustine in his theoretical and practical discourse, against ancient paganism (especially against those arguments put forward by Celsus and Porphyry) are useful in part for the challenges nowadays embodied in the so-called neopaganism (and its leading intellectuals such as De Benoist or Aug\u00e9). In this article a distinction is made in the Augustinian reaction between aspects relating to pagan cult and those relating to \u2018dogmatic\u2019 content. In the latter case, the multiform, inconsistent and unsystematic theology of ancient paganism reappears today as a pluralistic, sacralizing and superstitious attitude, tinged in some author\u2019s writings as politically correct multiculturalism. In the former case, the pagan cult reappears in the form of cultural policies that are tolerant towards any apparently religious phenomena such as Satanism and Halloween. Saint Augustine\u2019s message for the man of today and yesterday is clear: the syncretism which is latent in every pagan attitude or idea is wholly incompatible with the due reverence for faith in God the Creator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[1156],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-144-2012-en","tag-belmonte-sanchez-miguel-angel","idioma-spanish","tipologia-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaespiritu.istomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaespiritu.istomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaespiritu.istomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaespiritu.istomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaespiritu.istomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistaespiritu.istomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistaespiritu.istomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaespiritu.istomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistaespiritu.istomas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}