Desirable God?: Our Fascination with Images, Idols, and New DeitiesRoger Burggraeve Peeters Publishers, 2003 - 274 sidor The human fascination with images, and the idolatry or idolization of images as the source of desire, passion and terror, is treated in this book. The first part enters more deeply into religious idolatry, past and present. It treats the biblical, the early-Jewish as well as the Christian views on monotheism and the prohibition against images, as source of authentic humanism or as source of intolerance and violence. In the second part, the focus shifts onto a number of contemporary, profane idols and gods: the nationalist fascination for one's own land and people, and the fear or hate towards foreigners; the rampant preoccupation with (genetic) health, in a context of body culture and aestheticization, of which the postmodern sport idols have become the great 'icons'; the current image- and screen-culture and all forms of audiovisual exorcisms; and last but not least the ongoing process of economization and globalization, with an expanding culture of 'branding' logos. |
Innehåll
Introduction | 1 |
True Faith in God and Forms of Religious Idolatry | 7 |
Faith in the One as Source of Violence | 15 |
Inaccessible God | 23 |
Religious Idolatry | 31 |
Conclusion | 38 |
Idolatry as Impurity | 45 |
Humans Created and Called in the Image of | 61 |
a Dynamic Event? | 165 |
The Fascination With Ones Own Turf and the Violence | 172 |
The Place of Health in Our Culture | 180 |
the Past as Prologue? | 187 |
Conclusion | 196 |
and the Normalization of Excess | 199 |
On the Catwalk | 207 |
The ImageCulture | 213 |
A Dynamic Image of | 68 |
GodHuman and Not HumanGod | 76 |
An Icon and Not an Idol of | 86 |
Theology | 93 |
The Apocalyptical Dimension of the Christian Faith | 100 |
The AntiApocalyptical Temptation in Christianity | 114 |
Authentic Humanism and Forms of Profane Idolatry | 121 |
Between Idyll and Idol The Fascination with Ones | 159 |
The Alleged Idolatry Free Idolatry | 220 |
cal Figures of Globalization | 241 |
the Christian and the Image | 250 |
Afterword | 261 |
Purified Desire | 267 |
List of Contributors | 273 |
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Desirable God?: Our Fascination with Images, Idols, and New Deities Roger Burggraeve Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 2003 |
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