Karen·’s Reviews > The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000 > Status Update

Polytheists knew exactly what religiones were: they were precise ways of worshipping the gods, which one neglected at one’s peril… But philosophy and morality owed little to religio- to the cult of the gods. They were thought of as human activities, developed over the ages by human beings… What was surprising to contemporaries about the Christian Church was the extent to which activities were fused into one.