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Idolatry

Worship aimed at idols or creatures — the worship that belongs to God alone, misplaced

Idolatry is the worship of idols, or of any created thing put in God's place. Early Christian apologists pressed this charge against pagan cult, drawing on Paul's discussion in 1 Corinthians 8 through 10 and writings such as Tertullian's On Idolatry. Beyond polemic, it became a lasting category for distinguishing rightly ordered worship of God from disordered devotion directed toward creatures.

How it traveled

  1. On Idolatry.
    — · 220
    explains
  2. The Instructions of Commodianus.
    — · 220
    explains
  3. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  4. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
    explains
  5. The Incarnation of the Word
    Alexandria · 373
    applies
  6. Against the Heathen. (Contra Gentes.)
    Alexandria · 373
    explains
  7. Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.)
    Alexandria · 373
    applies
  8. The Letters
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
    applies
  9. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
    explains
  10. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
    explains
  11. Selections from the Letters of St. Ambrose
    Milan · 397
    explains
  12. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    applies
  13. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  14. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    applies
  15. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    applies
  16. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  17. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  18. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    applies
  19. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    applies
  20. The Sacred History Of Sulpitius Severus
    Toulouse (Aquitaine) · 425
    explains
  21. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  22. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  23. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  24. The Harmony of the Gospels
    Hippo Regius · 430
    applies
  25. Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  26. The Confessions
    Hippo Regius · 430
    applies
  27. On Christian Doctrine
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  28. On the Morals of the Manichæans
    Hippo Regius · 430
    applies
  29. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 439
    applies
  30. The Ecclesiastical History of Sozomen
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 450
    explains
  31. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
    applies
  32. Selected Epistles of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
    explains
  33. The Canons of the Council in Trullo; Often Called The Quinisext Council
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 692
    applies
  34. Commentary on Galatians
    Wittenberg · 1546
    explains
  35. Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator
    Geneva · 1564
    explains
  36. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
    applies
  37. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
    explains
  38. A History of the Work of Redemption
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  39. The great christian doctrine of original sin defended
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    explains
  40. Fifteen Sermons. On Various Subjects
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
    applies

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