Sentences with phrase «icon as an idol»

Treating an icon as an idol, worshipping it as a natural object, amounts to destroying it.

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From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

In each case these holy people treated the bodies of the dead neither as a bother or embarrassment, nor an idol or Icon, nor just a shell, They treated the dead like one of our own, precious to the people who loved them, temples of the Holy Spirit, neighbors, family, fellow pilgrims.

Besides the spirited attacks already mentioned, in this book Ellul also criticizes icons and images as idols, along with computers, comic strips, slogans, technical efficiency, the death - of - God theology, and political and liturgical spectacle.

These forms of consciousness will of course be different for every person, based on personal experience... so that is where a personal God comes in... one that fits each person's current level of understanding... a living, hopefully growing perception as knowledge increases, instead of a fixed idol or icon... but if it provides a person a non-harmful useful comfort and positive function, then what genius has the right to deprive them of that, with ridicule that their understanding is different and better, when the person being ridiculed at the time, does not possess the knowledge required to have the same understanding of the person ridiculing.

1956 - 1968 Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, Marilyn Monroe, Life as a Legend HVCCA — Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, Size Matters — XXL - recent Large - scale paintings Galerie Leu, Munich, Group Show Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, Verzameling Roger en Hilda Matthys - Colle Vonderbank Artgalleries — Berlin, Berlin, Prime Time — Idols and Icons Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York, Tease Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, Picasso and American Art CeSAC (Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee) Caraglio, Italy, Le cinque anime della scultura Woodward Gallery, New York, When Art Worlds Collide; The 60's CeSAC (Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee) Caraglio, Italy, Collectors 1 — Collezione La Gaia Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK, Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961 - 1968 Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie, Dusseldorf, News on Paper The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, Marilyn Monroe; Life as a Legend Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, The Painted Lady Stiftung Schleswig - Holsteinische Landesmuseen — Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Schönwahnsinnig The Columns, Seoul, Temptations Galerie Hafenrichter & Flügel, Nuremberg, New Arrivals and Classics Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, Pop Art at Princeton; Permanent and Promised Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Fondation Beyeler: EROS in der Kunst der Moderne Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney, NSW, International & Australian Works on Paper Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH.