The danger that attends every project of mythmaking is that the new myth will create new forms of idolatry. (religion-online.org)
In Saving the Appearances, Barfield claims that historical criticism and traditional exegesis will someday be unveiled as forms of idolatry.16 In a review article on Barfield, Altizer states: «Saving the Appearances may well point to a liberation of the Biblical scholar from an idolatrous understanding of the Bible as literal text. (religion-online.org)
The use of our religion as a sanction for what we ourselves desire most to preserve leads easily to American forms of idolatry which may be more treacherous enemies of Christian faith than explicit denials of it. (religion-online.org)