The Bible Rebukes Catholo-Orthodox Idolatry

ISBN-13: 9781481941709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str.

Wilbur Cartwright; Wilbur Cartwright; Wankford McNutt

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Cartwright and McNutt have done it again with this fourth book in their noteworthy "The Bible Rebukes Series." This humorous book responds to the classical Protestant objections to the Orthodox Christian doctrine of the veneration of holy icons through irony, hyperbole, parody, and outright lunacy. A cursory look at the book will bias the unwitting reader to conclude that it's a sincere, Protestant apology against the ancient Orthodox Christian practice of venerating images of Christ and His saints worthy of emulation. But as one delves further into the text, the reader begins to realize the Bible-based expositions cited against Orthodox Christian teaching are paradoxically serving to undermine the classical Protestant arguments against holy iconography and the Orthodox veneration of icons. If the devout Protestant can endure the satire and finish this acerbic read, she will find herself, at the very least, befuddled, and, at the very most, convinced of the Biblical underpinnings of the Orthodox Christian doctrine of the veneration of holy icons. The author hopes the most perceptive readers will at least get a few chuckles out of the book. Despite being a parody, the book presents between its outrageous lines the basic theological and biblical underpinnings of the Orthodox Christian understanding of the God-inspired iconography and the utilization of holy images in the worship of the Old and New Testament Church. The close-minded Protestant reader may feel very much "at home" in the anti-Catholic verbiage of this book, but the content will affect her mind on a subconscious level to challenge assumptions of anti-Catholic bias. The book is recommended not only for Catholics and Orthodox Christians, targeted by Bible-quoting, Protestant proselytizers and needing a good chuckle, but also as a gift to be presented to any Protestant who loves to rail against the ancient Christian usage and veneration of holy icons as a corrupt practice of idolatry condemned by the Bible. One might call it a religious gag gift, however, its tone is largely serious, though satirical. The sardonic, convoluted logic portrayed does not end in cynicism, however, since the scheme of the book is to level crumbling edifices of faulty biblical interpretation and fundamentalist self-imprisonment so as to clear a space for the growth of something more organic, less formulaic, and, above all, more fully human in sacred expressions of love toward Jesus Christ and his most noteworthy and venerable saints.

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