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Idolatry
About: Idolatry is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 831 publications have been published within this topic receiving 8433 citations. The topic is also known as: idolatrousness & image worship.
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: Gutmann et al. as mentioned in this paper defined human rights as "human rights as POLITICS and IDOLATRY" by Michael Ignatieff and argued that human rights should be defined as "political and ideological".
Abstract: Introduction by Amy Gutmann vii HUMAN RIGHTS AS POLITICS AND IDOLATRY by Michael Ignatieff Human Rights as Politics 3 Human Rights as Idolatry 53 COMMENTS Grounding Human Rights by K. Anthony Appiah 101 Debates with the PTA and Others by David A. Hollinger 117 The Moral Imagination and Human Rights by Thomas W. Laqueur 127 Relativism and Religion by Diane F. Orentlicher 141 RESPONSE TO COMMENTATORS by Michael Ignatieff Dignity and Agency 161 Contributors 175 Index 177
851 citations
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: Clark as mentioned in this paper explores the theological and extratheological implications of the controversy, using social network analysis to explain the personal alliances and enmities of its participants, and suggests how it prefigured modern concerns with the status of representation, the social construction of the body, and praxis vis-a-vis theory.
Abstract: Around the turn of the 5th century AD, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of "Origenism" at their opponents. Although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen's lifetime in the 3rd century, his speculative, Platonizing theology was not the only issue at stake in the Origenist controversy: "Origen" became a code word for nontheological complaints as well. Elizabeth Clark explores the theological and extratheological implications of the dispute, using social network analysis to explain the personal alliances and enmities of its participants, and suggesting how it prefigured modern concerns with the status of representation, the social construction of the body, and praxis vis-a-vis theory. Shaped by the Trinitarian and ascetic debates, and later to influence clashes between Augustine and the Pelagians, the Origenist controversy intersected with patristic campaigns against pagan "idolatry" and Manichean and astrological determinism. Discussing Evagrius Ponticus, Epiphanius, Theophilus, Jerome, Shenute and Rufinus in turn, Clark concludes by showing how Augustine's theory of original sin reconstructed the Origenist theory of the soul's pre-existence and "fall" into the body.
277 citations
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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define visual culture and define visual practice and the function of images, and discuss the violence of seeing: Idolatry and iconoclasm and the circulation of images in mission history.
Abstract: Contents List of Illustrations Preface Introduction I. Questions and Definitions 1. Defining Visual Culture 2. Visual Practice and the Function of Images 3. The Covenant with Images II. Images Between Cultures 4. The Violence of Seeing: Idolatry and Iconoclasm 5. The Circulation of Images in Mission History III. The Social Life of Pictures 6. Engendering Vision: Absent Fathers and Women with Beards 7. National Icons: Bibles, Flags, and Jesus in American Civil Religion Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
208 citations
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The Bible and Radical Politics: The Bible and the Revolt of 1640-1660 as mentioned in this paper, before 1640 Fast Sermons and Politics, 1640 -1660 Metaphors and Programmes The Wilderness, the Garden and the Hedge Poverty, Usury and Debt Political Divisions and the Civil War Liberty and Libertinism The Bible Dethroned Unfinished Business.
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: A Biblical Culture. THE REVOLUTIONARY BIBLE: Before 1640 Fast Sermons and Politics, 1640-1660 Metaphors and Programmes The Wilderness, the Garden and the Hedge Poverty, Usury and Debt Political Divisions and the Civil War Liberty and Libertinism The Bible and Radical Politics. INTERNATIONAL CATHOLICISM AND NATIONAL POLITICS: The Decalogue and Idolatry Chosen Nation, Chosen People Covenanted Peoples: Scotland and England God is Leaving England The Reign of the Saints Antichrist and his Armies "The Man of Blood". THE BIBLE AND ENGLISH LITERATURE: Some Biblical Influences Milton, Bunyan and Marvell. THE END OF THE REVOLUTIONARY BIBLE: The Bible and an Unequal Society The Bible Dethroned Unfinished Business. Appendices: God and Highwayman A Note on Liberation Theology.
160 citations
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01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: Camille as discussed by the authors examined the theme of idol-worship in medieval art and revealed the ideological basis of paintings, statues, and manuscript illuminations that depict the worship of false gods in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Abstract: By examining the theme of idol-worship in medieval art, this book reveals the ideological basis of paintings, statues, and manuscript illuminations that depict the worship of false gods in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. By showing that images of idolatry stood for those outside the Church - pagans, Muslims, Jews, heretics, homosexuals - Camille sheds new light on how medieval society viewed both alien 'others' and itself. He links the abhorrence of worshipping false gods in images to an 'image-explosion' in the thirteenth century when the Christian Church was filled with cult statues, miracle-working relics, and 'real' representations in the new Gothic style. In attempting to bring the Gothic image to life, Camille shows how images can teach us about attitudes and beliefs in a particular society.
156 citations