Sentences with phrase «between idolatry»

The question before us now is whether the connection that Paul drew between idolatry and homosexuality is accurate.

Despite his careful presentation of one side of Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption, Pollack throws a shroud over a work whose greatness lies in demonstrating the difference between idolatry and redemption.

Not exact matches

Seen this way, discussion of Islamic art can finally move from tired questions about the lack of figural representation to more interesting conversations on, for example, the complex relationships presumed between icons and idolatry or on Byzantine and patristic influences.

Yet, as Elliot Dorff points out, the apparent agreement on issues such as idolatry, killing innocent life, and sexual immorality belies deep interpretive differences, not only between but within religious traditions.

In all the Abrahamic religions idolatry is strongly forbidden, although views as to what consti.tutes idolatry may differ within and between them.

Idolatry leads to pride, which is very destructive and terrible in perverting relations between human beings.

This event sets off a minor debate between God and Moses about what God should do to the people of Israel in response to their idolatry.

While it is not within the province of government to determine who is religious and who is not, nor to discriminate between the different forms of religion, irreligion, and idolatry, except where public security is at stake, it is the function of the democratic state to persuade and encourage its citizens toward religious faith and away from irreligion and idolatry.

Ryser shows clearly the relationship between sight and idolatry in his excellent study on the golden calf.

An intense rivalry — indebted to Old Testament denunciations of idolatry and images — existed in Calvin's mind between the visual image and the spoken word.

There is no relation between the pure unitarian system, the most perfect and refined ethics of the Holy Book of Islam, and the ignorance, paganism, superstitious idolatry, arrogant materialism, infanticide, prostitution, incest, dowry extortion, oppression of orphans, disregard for the poor, and scorn of the weak which were characteristics of Mecca in those times.

The antithesis between the faith of the church and the nationalist idolatry has always been self - evident.

If they were asked they would probably admit that there was a special affinity between the classical world view and Greek religion or the tragic view of life, whereas the modern world view - is so contaminated and corrupted by idolatry that it can not provide a basis for the Greek view of life.

Admittedly, these are large and complicated questions, and I am keenly aware that also the faithful gathered at Immaculate Conception are often inwardly torn between Christian particularity and the superstitions and idolatries of the pseudo-nihilism in much of the surrounding culture.

Humans have the choice between God and idolatry.