What was the early-Christendom position on attributing pagan names to Christian concepts (mainly god)? Was there opposition to doing this?

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Even as early as apostolic times, there was use of the Greek word "theos" to speak about God, with no recorded opposition:

Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said:

"You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious. For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.'

What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands ...

(Acts 17:22–24, NABRE)

That being the case it would be surprising to discover that subsequent Christians had any objections to the practice.

Matt Gutting 18448

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