Sentences with phrase «deeper idolatry»

In the official formulation of Christian doctrine, Whitehead complains, «the deeper idolatry, of the fashioning of God in the image of the Egyptian.

But the deeper idolatry, of the fashioning of God in the image of the Egyptian, Persian, and Roman imperial rulers, was retained.

In Process and Reality Whitehead wrote: «When the Western world accepted Christianity, Caesar conquered; and the received text of Western theology was edited by his lawyers... The brief Galilean vision of humility flickered throughout the ages, uncertainly... [T] he deep idolatry, of the fashioning of God in the image of the Egyptian, Persian, and Roman imperial rulers, was retained.

Not exact matches

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.

Spiritually, he contends, addiction is a deep - seated form of idolatry.

Strategy becomes idolatry when we betray our deepest values in pursuit of earthly influence.

Idolatry is the basic sin, therefore, that which is deepest in us, most closely related to Original Sin; therefore, most likely to deceive us under the appearance of true worship or integrity or honesty or loyalty or idealism.

If love of family is stronger and deeper than love for Jesus Christ, this is family idolatry.

The underlying reason for the fragmentation of theological schooling is deep confusion of proximate with ultimate goals, a confusion of functional idolatry with radical faith, the remedy for which must be a kind of repentance.

As the periphery man He challenged the idolatry in religion and politics and confirmed the deeper tradition of «God, be merciful to me, a sinner» in the life of the synagogue and the church.

Any view of man which regards pride, selfishness, self - love, or self - idolatry as the major cause of man's problems misses the crucial fact that these are often symptoms of deeper causes anxiety, self - hatred, inner conflict, and blocked growth.

«Mistress America» centers on the tenuous nature of friendship, idolatry, the problems with protege / mentor relationships (another theme of late) all channelled through Brooke (Greta Gerwig); a New York multi-hyphenate and sophisticate with a veneer of indomitable confidence that masks a deep sense of her own fraudulence and lack of actual talent.