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For centuries, historians have claimed that Rogationtide is a Christianized adaptation of a pagan festival, the Ambarvalia. This chapter scrutinizes Roman sources for the Ambarvalia in order to demonstrate that no such syncretism ever occurred. The genealogy of this spurious Ambarvalia story illuminates how the standard Christianization paradigm rests on theology. This claim about Rogation syncretism is a remnant of medieval typology and Reformation polemic, which arose and spread because it helped clerics delineate what kinds of practices were or were not appropriately “Christian.” Early medieval preachers imagined a world where the Christian liturgical year had forever superseded its Jewish and pagan antitypes. Like its ancestor supersessionism, syncretism is an inescapably theological concept.
Title: Rome Purified
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For centuries, historians have claimed that Rogationtide is a Christianized adaptation of a pagan festival, the Ambarvalia.
This chapter scrutinizes Roman sources for the Ambarvalia in order to demonstrate that no such syncretism ever occurred.
The genealogy of this spurious Ambarvalia story illuminates how the standard Christianization paradigm rests on theology.
This claim about Rogation syncretism is a remnant of medieval typology and Reformation polemic, which arose and spread because it helped clerics delineate what kinds of practices were or were not appropriately “Christian.
” Early medieval preachers imagined a world where the Christian liturgical year had forever superseded its Jewish and pagan antitypes.
Like its ancestor supersessionism, syncretism is an inescapably theological concept.
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