Find "sanctified paganism" anywhere in Newman's writing (or mine). You've got it wrong there. He's referring to practices normally carried out for a pagan intent now carried out for the glory of God. He's saying those practices would have been thereby sanctified.
He's saying the power of the Almighty God, through His Church, can accomplish this.
... I wonder if that was Solomon's reasoning when he allowed his wives to plant their gods in the Temple of Jehovah...
That would have it backwards....like when Anne Rice (the occult novelist) bought a formerly Catholic church building to use for her purposes. See how that is similar to the Solomonic example you cited?
Find "sanctified paganism" anywhere in Newman's writing (or mine). You've got it wrong there.
Actually, I was referring to Newman... An excerpt from my original posting of Newman:
[...] are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.
Paganism sanctified by adoption... How absurd.
He's referring to practices normally carried out for a pagan intent now carried out for the glory of God. He's saying those practices would have been thereby sanctified.
And he'd be completely and utterly stone dead wrong.
[... I wonder if that was Solomon's reasoning when he allowed his wives to plant their gods in the Temple of Jehovah...]
That would have it backwards....like when Anne Rice (the occult novelist) bought a formerly Catholic church building to use for her purposes. See how that is similar to the Solomonic example you cited?
No, but I can see how Constantine might have bought a formerly Catholic church to use it for his purposes... Is that what you are getting at? ;) (<= See, wink thingy)