On Idolatry
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On Idolatry
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Author : Quintus Tertullianus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-10
On Idolatry written by Quintus Tertullianus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-10 with Religion categories.
The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry. For, although each single fault retains its own proper feature, although it is destined to judgment under its own proper name also, yet it is marked off under the general account of idolatry. Set aside names, examine works, the idolater is likewise a murderer. Do you inquire whom he has slain? If it contributes ought to the aggravation of the indictment, no stranger nor personal enemy, but his own self. By what snares? Those of his error. By what weapon? The offense done to God. By how many blows? As many as are his idolatries. He who affirms that the idolater perishes not, will affirm that the idolater has not committed murder. Further, you may recognize in the same crime adultery and fornication; for he who serves false gods is doubtless an adulterer of truth, because all falsehood is adultery. So, too, he is sunk in fornication. For who that is a fellow-worker with unclean spirits, does not stalk in general pollution and fornication? And thus it is that the Holy Scriptures use the designation of fornication in their upbraiding of idolatry. The essence of fraud, I take it, is, that any should seize what is another's, or refuse to another his due; and, of course, fraud done toward man is a name of greatest crime. Well, but idolatry does fraud to God, by refusing to Him, and conferring on others, His honors; so that to fraud it also conjoins contumely. But if fraud, just as much as fornication and adultery, entails death, then, in these cases, equally with the former, idolatry stands unacquitted of the impeachment of murder. - Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (Tertullian)
On Idolatry
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Author : Tertullian of Tertullian of Carthage
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-12-18
On Idolatry written by Tertullian of Tertullian of Carthage and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-18 with categories.
Tertullian discusses how living as a Christian in a world where paganism is embedded in every social occasion. Can a Christian go to (e.g) a pagan wedding? Tertullian is dealing with the general issue of living differently from the unbelievers, who are steeped in idol-worship. He deals with the negative side, of what to avoid, and lists a few ways in which this may be done.
Sipping Saltwater
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Author : Steve Hoppe
language : en
Publisher: Good Book Company
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Sipping Saltwater written by Steve Hoppe and has been published by Good Book Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Religion categories.
Everybody's thirsty. We're thirsty for a world without suffering. A world defined by peace, joy, and love. We're thirsty for paradise. How do we try to quench this thirst? We sip saltwater. We consume things that look, feel, and sound as if they'll quench our thirst, but they only make us thirstier. Sipping Saltwater points us to the only drink that will satisfy us now and eternally-Christ's living water-and shows us how to drink it. Book jacket.
On Idolatry
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Author : Tertullian of Carthage
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-05
On Idolatry written by Tertullian of Carthage and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05 with categories.
Tertullian, the african church father, states his primary thesis that "The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry."
Tertullian On Idolatry And Mishnah Avodah Zarah
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Author : Stephanie E. Binder
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-11-13
Tertullian On Idolatry And Mishnah Avodah Zarah written by Stephanie E. Binder and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-13 with Religion categories.
This work studies and compares systematically the text of Tertullian, an African Church Father of the third century CE, on idolatry with the rabbinic Mishnah Avodah Zarah, on the same subject, dating roughly from the same period. Similarities and differences between the Jewish and Christian approaches to idolatry are examined and accounted for. The research is inscribed in the wider framework of discussions on the “parting of the ways” between Jews and Christians. It also addresses related questions such as the role of the rabbis in second and third century Judaism in the Land of Israel and in the Diaspora; relations between Jews living in those places; interactions between Jews and pagans, Christians and pagans, Jews and Christians...
Daily Reflections On Idolatry
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Author : Joshua A. Fogel
language : en
Publisher: Hamilton Books
Release Date : 2012-12-16
Daily Reflections On Idolatry written by Joshua A. Fogel and has been published by Hamilton Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-16 with Religion categories.
Comprised of rabbinic debates in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), the Talmud has provided the basis for Jewish ethical and practical norms for centuries. It is also an extremely long and forbiddingly difficult work that has accumulated countless commentaries just as complex. A recent translation with extensive notes has made the Talmud more accessible to English-language readers, but the textual difficulties remain. This volume looks at Avodah Zarah, one tractate of the Talmud concerned with idolatry, page by page. Idolatry was one of the cardinal sins for which an observant Jew was to accept death before transgressing. Daily Reflections on Idolatry offers a modern commentary with doses of humor and comparative examples in an effort to both explain and humanize the text and make it even more accessible to contemporary readers.
More Than Anything A Study On Idolatry
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Author : Aubrey Coleman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
More Than Anything A Study On Idolatry written by Aubrey Coleman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Idolatry
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Author : Stephen E. Fowl
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Idolatry written by Stephen E. Fowl and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Religion categories.
No one purposefully chooses to become an idolater. No one consciously abandons the living God to fall prey to a pantheon of earthly gods. Yet idolatry has a way of subtly seeping into the cracks of human life. In Idolatry, Stephen E. Fowl explores how believers lapse into idolatry, a process he insists is much different from the decision of those who have rejected belief in God. He asserts that the Old Testament's account of Israel's idolatry as dramatic folly and betrayal describes the after effects of idolatry, not the process of how believers lapse into idolatry. Idolatry is a process of slowly diverting love and attention away from the one true God and toward false gods. Fowl identifies the various habits, practices, and dispositions that can lead to this process, using Scripture to demonstrate different ways believers become inclined to idolatry. He first turns to Deuteronomy to show how to combat idolatry by remembering the grace of God. He then examines Ephesians and Colossians to demonstrate how the suggested practices of thanksgiving and gratitude can serve as the antidotes to idolatrous greed. He looks to 1 John to find the love that casts out the fear and insecurity that the books of Kings, Isaiah, and Luke name as the forerunners of idolatry. Finally, he examines curiosity, traditionally considered a vice, and how it turns believers toward idols unless it is countered by an undistracted focus on Jesus. Idolatry looms over believers in a world overflowing with false gods, but Fowl offers hope. By diagnosing and defining the root causes of idolatry before these initial temptations become precipitated actions, Christians learn to navigate a world littered with false idols to live abundantly with the one true God.
Idolatry
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Author : Moshe Halbertal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-08-31
Idolatry written by Moshe Halbertal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-08-31 with Religion categories.
Ranging with authority from the Talmud to Maimonides, from Marx to Nietzsche and on to G.E. Moore, this account of a subject central to our culture also has much to say about metaphor, myth, and the application of philosophical analysis to religious concepts and sensibilities.
Idolatry
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Author : Moshe Halbertal
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1998-08-19
Idolatry written by Moshe Halbertal and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08-19 with Religion categories.
“You shall have no other gods besides Me.” This injunction, handed down through Moses three thousand years ago, marks one of the most decisive shifts in Western culture: away from polytheism toward monotheism. Despite the momentous implications of such a turn, the role of idolatry in giving it direction and impetus is little understood. This book examines the meaning and nature of idolatry—and, in doing so, reveals much about the monotheistic tradition that defines itself against this sin.The authors consider Christianity and Islam, but focus primarily on Judaism. They explore competing claims about the concept of idolatry that emerges in the Hebrew Bible as a “whoring after false gods.” Does such a description, grounded in an analogy of sexual relations, presuppose the actual existence of other gods with whom someone might sin? Or are false gods the product of “men’s hands,” simply a matter of misguided belief? The authors show how this debate, over idolatry as practice or error, has taken shape and has in turn shaped the course of Western thought—from the differentiation between Jewish and Christian conceptions of God to the distinctions between true and false belief that inform the tradition of religious enlightenment.Ranging with authority from the Talmud to Maimonides, from Marx to Nietzsche and on to G.E. Moore, this brilliant account of a subject central to our culture also has much to say about metaphor, myth, and the application of philosophical analysis to religious concepts and sensibilities. Its insights into pluralism and intolerance, into the logic and illogic of the arguments religions aim at each other, make Idolatry especially timely and valuable in these days of dark and implacable religious difference.