Identity and idolatry

"Identity and idolatry" Table Of Contents:

• 1- 1. Living inside the text : canon and creation
• 2- 2. A strange bridge : connecting the image and the idol.
• 3- Getting started on the wrong foot : creation and image
• 4- Human identity and human nature
• 5- 3. The liturgy of creation in the cosmic temple.
• 6- The first table as prologue
• 7- The liturgy of creation
• 8- The house that God built
• 9- 4. The image of God on the temple walls.
• 10- Introduction
• 11- Image and original
• 12- Signs of reflection
• 13- A reflected relationship
• 14- The first table background : kings and representatives
• 15- After the first table : sonship and sacredness
• 16- Prelude to idolatry
• 17- 5. Turning the imago dei upside down : idolatry and the prophetic stance.
• 18- After creation - whence is the image?
• 19- Divine fidelity and the image
• 20- The decalogue and the diatribe against idolatry
• 21- The golden calf - the 'great sin' of idolatry
• 22- Covenantal identity and idolatry across the Old Testament
• 23- Idolatry and adultery
• 24- 6. Inverting the inversion : idols and the perfect image in the New Testament.
• 25- Turning the story upside down
• 26- Setting the context
• 27- Idolatry and the Gentile mission
• 28- Theologies of idols : Romans 1 and 1 Corinthians 10
• 29- Narratives of idolatry : Acts 7 and 17
• 30- The perfect image
• 31- Being in the image of the image
• 32- 7. The rise of suspicion : the religious criticism of religion.
• 33- Idolatry as ideological criticism : the stage is set
• 34- Idolatry as psychological projection
• 35- Idolatry as alienation and oppression
• 36- Idolatry and the origin of religion
• 37- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
• 38- 8. Significance and security in a new key.
• 39- The crisis of identity and the idolatries of consumption
• 40- Christian identity and plastic narratives
• 41- An eternal story told across time

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