Sentences with phrase «into idolatry»

It may be called modernism, but surely one can live in the modern world, accepting its science and engaging in its work, without falling into idolatry of the modern.

They kept falling back into idolatry.

But we must not let this slide into idolatry of creation.

The Hebrews were not idolaters, except as they fell into idolatry through apostasy from their faith through Canaanite influence and had to be rebuked for it.

Before you settle into self - assigned relationship martyrdom, ask yourself if your search for the ideal Christian partner has morphed into idolatry rather than an act of submission to God?

Yet, ever and always, they, like Christians before them, fall easily into idolatry» and thereby lapse into paganism.

Hauerwas is right that an outlook based on the pursuit of individual autonomy may well launch people into idolatry, as they will often put themselves first, before other people and before God.

And while it may be true that many American Christians have an unhealthy relationship with firearms that has veered into idolatry, these pictures were not an example of that.

The novel also goes on to describe the three God individuals as all submitting to one another and to Mack — and presumably every individual human — an idea many fear could easily become dangerous and lead into idolatry.

On the one hand, we read in the Bible about the Lord who takes sides in history, rewarding the Israelites for their fidelity and punishing their lapses into idolatry.

It turns into an idolatry of the present or past, and it is content to live without the tension and challenge of a new and surprising future.

It actually moves dangerously into idolatry.

For example, if sacramentalism is uninformed by the mystical tendency to relativize the things of the world, or by the apophatic suspicion of symbols, or by the activist need to change the social world, it will inevitably degenerate into idolatry and empty ritualism.

And even liberal Protestants won't accept that anymore, having recognized how easily their own sense of mission can be translated into the idolatry of race, class and nation, and how the transmission of a particular cultural tradition can be equated with the extension of God's realm.

It does not leave man without any sense of God or knowledge of the holy, though it may distort this sense, turning man's worship into idolatry and leaving him without hope and seemingly without God.

This is what keeps us from sliding continually back into idolatry.

Thus no Bible can be worshiped nor can it be installed as the infallible revelation of the word of God, without falling into idolatry.

When we let the world define our success instead of Jesus, we fall into idolatry.

The best religious creeds, rituals, codes, and institutions are those that both powerfully evoke sustained loyalty to the most high and at the same time repel attempts by the faithful who fall into idolatry to make the symbols themselves into objects of worship.

A Buddhism that grew in some of the ways I have suggested might gain some of Christianity's strengths without falling into the idolatries, superstitions, and distortions that clutter Christian history and contemporary reality.

A good shepherd had better be pointing people to the Lord rather than himself for their certainty, otherwise he's training them into idolatry.

Religions fall into idolatry, which is parallel to the logical fallacy of misplaced concreteness.

Unwilling to adopt the patience and waiting that always accompany authentic hope, they fell back into idolatry, forsaking the dream of freedom.

But I also think that while providing reasons is a fundamental part of the American judicial process, it is easy to turn respect for «reason» into idolatry, to think the «reasons» themselves do or mean more than they actually do, and to treat «reasons» as necessary while ignoring the question whether they are sufficient.