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A 5 page paper examining whether Beowulf is as much a Christian as he claims. There are numerous pagan references throughout the epic, including among them monsters, sorcery and drinking of blood. Had Beowulf been truly Christian in his convictions, he would have understood that he would have no need of treasure after leaving this earth. Rather than allow the captured treasure to be used for the benefit of others after his death, he insisted that it be buried with him. Beowulf was a pagan hero. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Beowulf commonly is accepted to be around 1000 AD, but that date most likely represents only the time at which the poem actually was preserved in writing (Anonymous bull42).
Until then it probably had been entirely entrusted to the continuation of the minstrels who no doubt used the core story and elaborated on it with each engagement of their
wanderers lives. When the Christian message was first taken to the pagan Anglo-Saxons, the Church primarily was interested in saving the souls of the people and converting them to the
truth of the Gospel and of Jesus Christ (McLucas beowulf). Seeking not to disrupt their entire belief systems by insisting that they give up all their customs and habits,
the Church deemed it proper to allow them to retain many of their former customs, providing those customs were not explicitly forbidden by the Bible. The same approach applies
in missionary work today-the continuation of voodoo and its integration into the Catholic religion of the areas to which it is indigenous provides an example of older application of the
concept, as does our modern use of the Christmas tree. It was a symbol of a pagan celebration that occurred around the time of the Christian-accepted date of Jesus
birth. That there should be pagan aspects in an epic supposedly Christian should not come as surprise. A pagan hero is one
who is driven by destiny. He is drawn to those events and ideals that will be material in fulfilling that destiny, and the path to attainment can be filled
with magical and mystical occurrences that can only be explained in terms of the occult. These several aspects of the pagan condition serve to cloud the issue of what
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