Sentences with phrase «modern idolatry»

Once more they asserted the judgment and redemptive powers of God's Word against all forms of modern idolatry in the political, economic, and social realms.

If there can be such a thing as modern idolatry, that is it.

But the products which come from the altars of this modern idolatry — the dividends, the privileges, the status, the struggle — are of such a sort that it is difficult to partake of them without becoming involved in the whole system of misplaced faith and perverted morality.

He is the author of Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida and Marion on Modern Idolatry (InterVarsity Press) and, more recently, The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music (Cambridge University Press)

, p. 168) Before we can genuinely address the Thou, however, we must escape from that modern idolatry which leads us to sacrifice «the ethical» on the altar of our particular causes.

Not exact matches

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.

If they were asked they would probably admit that there was a special affinity between the classical world view and Greek religion or the tragic view of life, whereas the modern world view - is so contaminated and corrupted by idolatry that it can not provide a basis for the Greek view of life.

He argued doggedly against «democratism,» the idea that majorities are always right, because he believed that democracy was the characteristically modern form of political idolatry, based on a flattery of fallen human nature.

The Bible, the church, Jesus Christ and God have all lost their absoluteness in modern times, and the attempt of the guardians of Christian orthodoxy to restore any of them to the pillars from which they have fallen becomes only a new form of idolatry.

He attacked the illusory faith of modern man in man as an idolatry.

I'd like to explore the idea that the way the Bible is being used in modern Christian circles, particularly among conservative evangelicals, may in fact border on idolatry.

nor their capacity to blind themselves to facts.; ideolog -LCB-- y, - ically, etc -RCB-; intellectually impoverished adherents of post modernism «science»,; IPCC; lying cheating warmist «scientist»; Lysenko; morally and ethically bankrupt; more skullduggery by the «Team»; orthodoxy; Phrenology ~ climate science; policy apparachiks; post modern; Propaganda; pseudo science; religion; religious -LCB-- ly - based -RCB-; sacred CAGW gospel; scam; «science» now means «propaganda» «idolatry», «blindness», «mendacity» and «venality»; scum; vindictive people; pitchforks and torches and tar....