Sentences with phrase «kind of idolatry»

To be sure, there are widely varying degrees and kinds of idolatry in the states I have mentioned.

I am not concerned either with graven images or the kind of idolatry against which so many of my profession rail: the substitution of something like wealth or success for God.

Speaking during News Hour he said: «There's a kind of idolatry in a sense that humanity is above all of the impacts that we throw at the planet and we're somehow going to be kind of excused from the consequences that we're making.»

(See Lumen Gentium, Chapter II, # 16) Not to acknowledge this possibility is itself a kind of idolatry that obscures, as does all idolatry, the self - revelation of mystery.

«As an argument against this way of thinking, this kind of idolatry, I turn to the work of Walter Brueggemann, who, in an interview last year with Krista Tippett for On Being, explained the reason for the abundance of metaphors we find for God in the scriptures this way: «The Biblical defense against idolatry is plural metaphors.

Nationalism in any of these forms must be criticized as a kind of idolatry.

«It's a kind of idolatry to think you can write down one equation that will describe accurately the way collections of people behave»