Thomas P. Power 
Confronting the Idols of Our Age [EPUB ebook] 

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An idol is a good thing. It is good because God created it. Nothing exists that God did not create and God created all things good. So sex can be an idol, but before it was an idol it was a good creation of God. Materialism is an idol, but to have a material world was God’s idea in the first place. Workaholism is an idol, but work is itself a good gift of God. What turns these good gifts of God into idols is what we have done with them. So we have common forms of idolatry expressed in consumerism, individualism, narcissism, careerism, and hedonism; while there are less familiar expressions found in omnism, fatalism, Gnosticism, relativism, positivism, and reductionism. We have put these and other things on a pedestal and made them into mini-gods. In the end they fail to deliver what they promise.
These twelve mediations on a scriptural passage by faculty members of Wycliffe College, Toronto, emphasize that the good news is that God can redeem idols. Each one can be restored to its proper place in God’s created order and placed under God’s authority.

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Thomas P. Power is sessional lecturer in the history of Christianity, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. He is the author of The Apocalypse in Ireland: Prophecy and Politics in the 1820s (2022). He is general editor of the series Wycliffe Studies in History, Church, and Society.

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Bahasa Inggris ● Format EPUB ● Halaman 82 ● ISBN 9781532604348 ● Ukuran file 2.3 MB ● Editor Thomas P. Power ● Penerbit Wipf and Stock Publishers ● Kota Eugene ● Negara US ● Diterbitkan 2017 ● Diunduh 24 bulan ● Mata uang EUR ● ID 6885724 ● Perlindungan salinan Adobe DRM
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