The uses of idolatry
"This book is a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not receded in a supposedly “secular” world, but has rather migrated from the explicit worship of God to the implicit worship of things of human creation. The book examines modern idolatries and the ways in which humans b...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press
[2024]
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| Sumario: | "This book is a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not receded in a supposedly “secular” world, but has rather migrated from the explicit worship of God to the implicit worship of things of human creation. The book examines modern idolatries and the ways in which humans become dominated by our own creations. While critical of modern idolatries, the argument is also sympathetic, seeing in idolatry a deep longing in the human heart for the transformation of our lives. Max Weber is often credited with proclaiming that the modern world is disenchanted, but Weber himself did not buy the story of disenchantment as it is usually presented. Ranging widely across the fields of history, philosophy, political science, sociology, and cultural studies, the book develops an alternative account of modernity as not the condition of being disenchanted but the condition of having learned to describe the world as disenchanted. For a better description of the world, the book turns to scriptural, theological, and phenomenological accounts of idolatry as inordinate devotion to created things. Through explorations of nationalism and consumer culture, it presents a sympathetic but critical account of how and why we sacrifice ourselves and others to gods of our own design. It explores incarnation and sacrament as ways toward healing idolatry by finding God in things without making gods of things. Ultimately, the best remedy for idolatry is an uncontrollable encounter with the incarnate God in the form of those who are marginalized by idolatrous systems.-- |
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| Descripción Física: | IX, 493 páginas ; 24 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780197679043 9780197679050 |
