His solo exhibitions
include Idolatry (2013) and Singularity (2012) both held at Hill Smith Gallery in Adelaide, South Australia.
The flesh can not simply mean the body, since the works of the flesh
include idolatry, enmity, jealousy, and the like — passions not obviously rooted in our biological makeup.
Not exact matches
The reason that the
idolatry involved in devotion to the Earth is less dangerous than other
idolatries is because the Earth
includes far more of God's creation.
To treat any item in the universe,
including status quo power arrangements and «understandings» of God, as in some way «absolute» or inherently «sacred» is
idolatry.
Idolatry in our age
includes also putting politics over Christian doctrine.
The first function of the affirmation that I belong to God is to combat all
idolatries,
including religious
idolatry, to oppose my innate tendency to erect a false absolute out of that which is essentially relative, and to place a «No Thoroughfare» sign against the roads which turn nature into Nature, humanity into Humanity and myself into Myself.
The first major statement of his pontificate, Evangelii Gaudium,
included denunciations of the «
idolatry of money» and criticisms of «the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation.»
Death is prescribed as the punishment for a host of crimes
including murder, treason, kidnapping,
idolatry, blasphemy, false prophecy, witchcraft, breaking the Sabbath, rape, adultery, incest, perversion, uttering a curse, striking a parent, bearing false witness in a death penalty trial.
This
includes — particularly for Christians — the denunciation of the
idolatry of absolute claims for a particular economic system or the myth of the «only one alternative.
Thus, according to Zimmermann, the postmodernist critique of autonomous reason,
including the notion of deconstruction itself, was foreshadowed in an important strand of early Reformation theology, one that puts an emphasis on epistemic humility as a corrective to the temptation to
idolatry.