I'd prefer examples of early Christian syncretism, but really any examples are fine.
>>18653578Wasn't there some Roman emperor who had an altar to Jesus alongside other Roman and non-Roman gods?
There was some super early church archeologists found in Israel where Jesus was being worshipped as a part of the Greco Roman pantheon. I can’t remember where exactly it was though.
>>18653733I think you might be thinking of that military barracks where different Gods were placed for soldiers of different nationalities.
>>18653696no it’s fake bullshit
>>18653578Any examples of Buddhist-Christian syncretism?
>>18653578Latin American Catholicism is very syncretic
>>18653578Christ the Eternal Tao comes to mind.It reconciles ancient civilizations ideas of God, especially those of the Chinese (Shangdi, Tao), with God the Holy Trinity.It’s pretty questionable and probably is pseudo-history. There’s no way it’s all true, but it’s an example of Christian syncretism and it sounds cool.
>>18654169Haven’t read it, but I watched a video on Daoism where the speaker briefly mentioned that Chinese translations of the Bible(which would have been translated directly from Latin) would translate The Logos as Tao.
>>18654590Yeah, the two terms are possibly synonymous. Logos and Tao both denote a selfless pattern that orders the universe.Besides, the Tao is translated the Way in English. Jesus calls Himself the Way in the Gospels, so it is not entirely out of place to call Him the Tao.
>>18654652>>18654169You could argue that pretty much every translation of any religious text is inherently syncretistic, especially when it’s translated from a different language family. The Septuagint is basically a whole other world from the Hebrew Old Testament, transforming it into something resembling a Homeric myth, away from its Near Eastern origins.
>>18653578well you have various faiths mixing african paganism with catholicism like voodoo and santeria.
>>18654859exact same thing in India.
>>18653578>Christian syncretismMost forms of Christianity are just Israelite religion syncretized with Greco-Roman paganism. This is very well known and even early Christians recognized how close they are to each other.
>>18655655this. everything from this era ALWAYS goes back to homer
