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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"idolatry"”.
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Understanding Image Bearing and Idolatry Within a Christian Counseling Movement
… have been delivered from a spiritual state of idolatry. Chapter 2 covers the hermeneutics of the biblical counseling movement. Several hermeneutical models used by biblical counselors are made and a new model is presented that shows biblical theology is needed to understand the relationship …
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Beyond ethical reflections : neo-liberalism, idolatry and Canadian catholic social teaching
… is consistent with Scripture's perspective on idolatry. The study suggests that the theological theme of idolatry provides significant insight into the religious dimension that sustains neo-liberalism as an oppressive system of domination and a structure of social sin. The study includes …
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The Structural Role of Idolatry in The Works of Marcel Proust
… study are: (1) to determine how the theme of idolatry is integrated into Proust's works from the earliest texts through the major novel and (2) to discover and explain how it acquires structural importance as proust matures as a writer. Investigated first of all is Proust's evolution from …
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Idolatry and authority: a study of 1 Corinthians 8.1-11.1 in the light of the Jewish diaspora
1 Cor 8.1-11.1 concerns the subject of idolatry in first-century Christianity and ancient Judaism. Jews and Christians differ over what constitutes idolatry; and even within ancient Judaism and early Christianity, there was no consensus on what it meant. The NT passage concerns three parties, i.e. …
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Paul and the Politics of Idolatry: Ancient Mediterranean Cult Images and Iconic Ritual in the Letters of Paul
… reinstate the discourse of 'idols' (εἴδωλα) and 'idolatry' (εἰδωλολατρία) in the letters of Paul within the wider world of ancient Mediterranean religion involving cult images and iconic ritual. The focus of this thesis lies most broadly in the political and ethnic dynamics of Paul's ritual demand …
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Classical Trinitarian Theology and the Idolatry of Nationalism: The Doctrine of the Trinity as a Critique of Political Theology
… today, should be taken as a critique of the idolatry of nationalism and should point us toward a new theological politics that is informed by the proper worship of the triune God, especially in the Church’s sacred liturgy. Existing proposals regarding the relation between trinitarian and …
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René Girard, Sacrifice, and the Eucharist
… thought comes into view within his analysis of idolatry. Idolatry is seen to form a type that bears the character of a parody that comes fully into view in light of Christian realities. Both the adoration that mimetic desire directs towards the model of desire and the violent worship of the …
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A translation and commentary on Claudius Marius Victor's Alethia 3.1-326
… exception of the Jews), mankind’s descent into idolatry. There follows God’s punishment at Babel and, finally, the Jews’ embrace of idolatry. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the poem, Chapter 2 marshals the meager biographical evidence of the Alethia’s author; Chapter 3 treats the …
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Abraham traditions in Middle Jewish literature : implications for the interpretation of Galatians and Romans.
… Obedience to the law was tantamount to idolatry (Gal 4:1-11). All those who were true children of Abraham should shun the law, just as Abraham was known to have shunned idolatry. In Romans, Paul played upon the tradition which connected Abraham with the Mosaic law (Rom 4:3). He redefined …
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The Mystical in Canon Sheehan's Works
… outgrowth or accompaniment of gross oriental idolatry, even though those systems did actually demand of their votaries some sort of unitive contemplation.
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“Do Not Covet”: The Tenth Commandment In Pauline Ethics
… 1 Cor 10:6); (2) he connects covetousness and idolatry (1 Cor 10:6–7; Eph 5:5; Col 3:5); (3) he links violating the Tenth Commandment to violating other prohibitions from the second table of the Decalogue (Rom 13:8–10; 1 Cor 10:6–8; 1 Thess 4:3–7); and, (4) he presents covetousness as a test of …
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Loon : a novel
… Her mother's mental dysfunction and religious idolatry determine April's place in society and within her own family as a misfit, ultimately preventing a relationship between mother and daughter. Coloured by insanity and Christianity, Loon is about an adolescent attempting to establish her own …
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Finding Identity in Christ at Fireside Baptist Church in Elizabethtown, Kentucky
… the biblical and theological concept of idolatry based on exegesis of Romans 1:18-32; 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; and 1 Corinthians 10:1-22. Chapter 3 reviews the historical development of the concept of identity while providing a Christian framework by which to understand it. Chapter 4 …
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Paradise Lost: The Biblical Fashioning of the East Indies in Dutch Chorographical Accounts, 1596-1726
… used concepts such as the Garden of Eden, idolatry, Satan, monotheism, Noachic descent, the location of Ophir, Hebrew rituals, and the Book of Nature to construct an Indian Ocean World which was an extension of the world of the Old Testament. This world was both observable and describable, …
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An analysis of the fourth voyage of Gulliver's travels and its relevance to the twentieth century
… universalities is blind acceptance and pure idolatry. Each generation must determine the validity of the label art by determining the relevance of the work to its own generations. Unless a work of art can successfully meet such a test, the label is no more than a gentleman's agreement among …
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Pagan History and Religion in the Scholarly World of Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714)
… the key to understanding the origins of pagan idolatry and was often thought to have contained corrupted biblical history; secondly, the evidence of ancient Egyptian history, above all Manetho’s dynasties of Egyptian kings which were partially re-discovered in 1602 and which contradicted the …
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The Myth of the Saving Power of Education: A Practical Theology Approach
… this inadequate criterion for salvation embodies idolatry of the market and false belief in the saving power of human institutions. Depending solely on education for individual economic salvation overburdens formal schooling at the expense of considering other communal approaches to economic and …
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A critique of the use of the "Exodus" metaphor by feminist theology
… to recognise them results in irrelevance or idolatry. Our second and third chapters explore the use of the Exodus metaphor by Feminist Liberation theology and the limitations of the metaphor, respectively.
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Sacred ceremony and magical praxis in Jewish texts of early and late antiquity
… superstition and foreign practices, typified by idolatry, incest and bloodshed. Sacrifice in the Temple allowed people to fulfil God's commandments, drawing near to him by means of animal or cereal offerings. When the Temple was destroyed, prayer rituals replaced the sacrifices. The absence of …
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