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The uses of idolatry /

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In The Uses of Idolatry, William T. Cavanaugh offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly 'secular' world. Rather, the target of worship has changed, migrating from the explicit worship of God to the implicit worship of things. Cavanaugh e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavanaugh, William T., 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2024].
Subjects:
Idolatry.
Idolatry > Biblical teaching.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: everybody worships
  • Max Weber's polytheism
  • Charles Taylor's naivete
  • Idolatry in the scriptures
  • Augustine on idolatry as self-worship
  • Marion on idolatry as a mirror to the self
  • The splendid idolatry of nationalism
  • The unsplendid idolatry of consumerism
  • Incarnation and sacrament.